Inspecting the Foundations - Umalusi

Limitations associated with this researchAs the methodology described above has indicated, while every effort was made to coverthe bases on the national and provincial department levels, it was not possible to deal with thePALCs in the same exhaustive way. And, as the report will point out, not even the departmentsthemselves, let alone the learning centres had suffi cient spare resources or documentation toprovide copies to Umalusi, though people were generous in terms of assistance when they wereable to offer it.Similarly, approaching private providers – whether of the GETC: ABET or of Seta-related GETCs– for curriculum documents did not necessarily mean that such information was forthcoming. So,while the research has attempted to be thorough within the constraints explained, it cannot claimto be exhaustive, and general observations made in this report may not hold true for individualprogrammes out in the fi eld. Nevertheless, given the amount of documentation received, and theinformation relayed from interviewees during the research, Umalusi is confi dent that the informationpresented here is a fair refl ection of its understanding of the state of the curricula for the GETC asrelayed to the researchers during this project.18