Rationale

In an era where the Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping industries, there is an acute necessity for qualifications that align with these evolving market demands. This innovative occupational qualification is specifically crafted to meet the needs of the fashion industry in this new technological age. It offers courses tailored for the youth; a demographic known for its quest for immediate results. This program ensures active engagement from the outset in the design and manufacturing processes, simultaneously imparting crucial product-based knowledge and digital competencies integral to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Key Aspects:
  1. Embracing Digital Transformation: The traditional manual-based instruction in fashion is increasingly seen as sluggish and uncompetitive, often perceived as burdensome by younger generations. This qualification pivots towards an emphasis on CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing) education and application, a critical element missing in the current curriculum.
 
  1. CAD/CAM at the Forefront: CAD/CAM technologies, now central to the Fourth Industrial Revolution in fashion design and manufacturing, have become more affordable and accessible globally. This course is built around these technologies, essential for future applications in pattern making, grading, automated sewing, cutting, spreading, and potential AI integration on the factory floor.
 
  1. Efficient and Practical Education: Traditional fashion education often extends over long periods without yielding immediate practical benefits. This course is designed to provide swift, tangible results in product development, addressing the current generation's preference for rapid achievement and addressing unemployment issues. It offers specialized product-based skills in a condensed timeframe, empowering students as entrepreneurs or industry professionals.
 
  1. Comprehensive Skill Development: Unlike conventional programs that take years without specialization, this course focuses on mastering a specific skill set, enabling graduates to produce market-ready garments immediately after completion. It spans product development, digital pattern making, garment construction, production management, and entrepreneurship.
 
  1. Curriculum Focus Areas:
    • Product Development: Utilizing CAD technology for technical drawings, pattern making, grading, and pre-production management.
    • Factory Floor Exposure: Hands-on experience with cutting, spreading, laying, sewing, and both manual and semi-automated machinery.
    • Overgarment Fabrication: Including fit, sizing, construction order, quality control, and finishing techniques.
 
  1. Additional Skills:
    • Trend analysis, product line design, entrepreneurial skills for setting up businesses, garment costing, marketing, branding, and range compilation.
    • Pressing and storing techniques specific to shirts and blouses.
 
  1. Broad Accessibility: This qualification is tailored for high-school graduates or those with prior fashion-related education, offering formal recognition of specialized shirt and blouse-making skills. It also caters to industry professionals without formal qualifications, acknowledging their workplace-acquired skills and competencies.
In conclusion, this qualification is strategically designed to equip learners with specialized, market-relevant skills in bottom wear making. It positions them for immediate employment or entrepreneurship, aligning with the technological advancements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the fashion industry.
 
 
 
LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE AND RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING:
It is assumed that learners are competent in the following:
  • Matric or equivalent qualification
  • Mathematical Literacy at NQF Level 4
  • English NQF Level 4 (as a medium of instruction)
  • Work experience of a minimum of three years as an assistant pattern maker, assistant grader, bespoke designer, or fashion assistant.
 
RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
 
The Fashion Institute of Advanced Learning accepts the Recognition of Prior Learning’s value of awarding credits aligned to the Institute’s program through the means of assessing learning and work experience previously attained. By widening access to this product-based skills qualification, life-long learning and skill acquisition is encouraged.
 

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In-person learning: 4-6 hours every day excep weekend 
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