Skills for work, business and the digital economy. Learn practical skills, do real workplace tasks and build evidence of what you can do.
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Workplace
Build the professional habits every workplace needs: communication, teamwork, time management, customer service, problem solving, digital workplace skills, responsible information handling and workplace ethics.
10 modules, about 6 hours
Certificate of Completion
FreeWith a NIBS Campus account Start free
Digital Foundations
The free NIBS foundation course: computers, the internet, staying safe, AI tools, Windows, a first look at Word, Excel and PowerPoint, email and meetings, the cloud, working together online and digital habits for a South African workplace. Free, with a Certificate of Completion.
22 modules, about 45 hours
Certificate of Completion
FreeWith a NIBS Campus account Start free
Train for one job, with Workplace Lab tasks assessed by a facilitator. 13 more coming soon.
5 open now Role PathwaysDigital
Run a modern digital office: information systems, Microsoft 365, records and POPIA in practice. Every learner starts here.
10 to 12 weeks8 to 10 hours a weekWorkplace Lab
Professional Certificate
Included in NIBS PlusFrom R199 a month View pathway
Business
Customer service, CRM records, pipelines, tickets, complaints and customer communication across the modern customer journey.
10 to 12 weeks8 to 10 hours a weekWorkplace Lab
Professional Certificate
Included in NIBS PlusFrom R199 a month View pathway
Office Productivity
A planned 12 weeks of practical Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills ending in one connected business project. A NIBS Skill Pathway; not a Microsoft certification.
12 weeks, about 67 hours
Certificate of Completion; Skills Certificates where assessed briefs are Competent
Included in NIBS PlusFrom R199 a month View course
Office Productivity
A letter, a memo or a report is often the first thing a client, a supplier or a manager sees of your work. Before anyone reads a word, the layout has already said "careful" or "careless".
About 6 hours
Certificate of Completion
Included in NIBS PlusFrom R199 a month View course
Start from the job you want. Each one shows the skills, the pathway and the work you will do.
Open the Role Explorer
Not watch, quiz, certificate. You do the job in a simulated South African workplace and leave with the work itself.
Short lessons on the role, the workflow and the tools it runs on.
A brief, the files, a deadline, in the real software. You do the work in the Workplace Lab.
A facilitator assesses it against the NIBS standard. Competent results go on your Skills Passport.
The Workplace Lab
Your simulated employer sends the brief and the files. You do the work, submit it, and a facilitator tells you whether it meets the standard.
Compare three supplier quotations for RFQ 041
Procurement has received three quotations for the office printer contract. Prepare the comparison schedule, check each supplier's documents and flag anything missing before Thursday's approval meeting.
Files
Instructions
Submission
Facilitator feedback
Comparison complete and correctly weighted; you caught Supplier B's expired tax clearance. The register is missing the purchase order number. Resubmit the register only.
Register corrected. Recorded on your Skills Passport as Procurement and tender administration.
Each NIBS award says how it was earned and carries its own ID and QR code, so an employer can check it online without calling us.
Complete the learning requirements of a course in the campus and it is issued automatically. It confirms completion; it does not by itself certify workplace competence.
Free coursesBe assessed as competent in a skill through real evidence, where a Skill Course has an assessed task. Finishing the lessons alone earns a Certificate of Completion.
Skill CoursesComplete a Role Pathway and show the required competencies in the Workplace Lab, assessed by NIBS.
Role PathwaysFinishing a module is recorded in your Skills Passport and transcript, not as a separate certificate. Formal qualifications are certified by the QCTO, not by NIBS. Verify a credential
No application form. Choose how long, pay once or monthly, and every course opens straight away.
The full skills catalogue and the practice that proves it.
Formal qualifications are separate: R500 registration, then R950 a month. See qualifications.
Registered occupational qualifications, with national assessment. R500 registration, then R950 a month, and NIBS Plus is included while you are enrolled.
QCTO accreditedAll 8 listed
No intake dates and no application. Free courses need no card; NIBS Plus opens every course and pathway.
