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Develop skills across your organisation or community.

For NGOs, CSI programmes, SETAs, employers and colleges. Choose the Role Pathways and courses each group needs, say how many people go on each, and NIBS comes back with a cohort plan and a quote. Learners study online, at an e-Learning Cafe or with a facilitator.

Build your programmeHow a cohort works
A round-table group of learners working together on laptops and tablets.

What you can show your funders

Every cohort is recorded as it happens, so the numbers for your report are already there. You see the cohort, not the person's files.

  • Who enrolled and who finished Enrolment and completion for each cohort, with start and end dates.
  • Learning hours Time spent learning across the cohort.
  • What they can do Competencies assessed by a facilitator, including real Workplace Lab tasks.
  • Credentials anyone can check NIBS credentials with a reference your funder can verify online.

Build your programme

Pick the pathways and courses your people need from the catalogue as it stands today, and say how many people go on each. NIBS turns your list into a cohort plan with organisational pricing; there is no checkout for organisations.

  1. 1Build your programme
  2. 2Tell us about your organisation

Role Pathways

Eight to twelve weeks toward one job, with Workplace Lab tasks and assessment.

Skill Courses

One skill each, short and practical. Mix them into a programme of your own.

Free Foundations

Open courses every learner can start with. No licence needed for these.

Tell us about your organisation

Who you are, where your learners are and how you would like to work. A person replies within two working days with a proposal.

  1. 1Build your programme
  2. 2Tell us about your organisation
NIBS organisation enquiry
NPO, NPC or company number, if you have one. It goes on the MoU.
Town or city is enough.
If they start in groups. For example 20.
Timelines, funding, accreditation needs, where they would study.
What happens next
NIBS reviews the enquiry, confirms the pathways and the standard, and comes back to you with a proposal.
Pricing
From ten learners. Pricing is per seat and depends on the pathway, the service model and the delivery setting, so it is quoted on request rather than published.
Industry Academies
Learning built with your organisation around one industry. About Industry Academies.
e-Learning Cafes
Have computers and space? Your organisation can also become a NIBS e-Learning Cafe.

Three ways to work with NIBS

Not sure which fits? Choose "Not sure yet" in the form and NIBS will advise.

  • Licence only

    Platform access for your learners. You buy seats, assign Role Pathways or Skill Courses, and follow progress on your dashboard.

    For organisations with their own facilitation, or self-directed learners.

    Choose this

  • Managed cohort

    Platform access plus a NIBS facilitator, learner support, Workplace Lab assessment and reporting to you.

    For community programmes, CSI and skills-development projects that need outcomes.

    Choose this

  • Formal programme

    A QCTO-accredited occupational qualification, delivered and assessed at the NIBS Katlehong campus, with the platform included.

    Where your requirement depends on a formal qualification.

    Choose this

How a cohort works

One structure for every organisation, from a five-person team to a sector programme.

  1. Organisation and pathwayYou choose the Role Pathways or courses; NIBS confirms the standard they are assessed against.
  2. SeatsA reference, the number of seats and the funding context are recorded, and learner vouchers are issued.
  3. CohortLearners are enrolled into a named cohort with a start and end date.
  4. Learning and practiceLearners study in NIBS Campus; the Workplace Lab assigns and assesses the tasks.
  5. ProgressYou see cohort-level progress and outcomes on your dashboard.
  6. CredentialsNIBS records each competency and issues credentials that anyone can verify online.

What your organisation gets

  • Learner enrolment and seat assignment
  • Role Pathways and Skill Courses
  • Cohorts with a start and an end
  • Progress, completion and learning-hours reporting
  • Workplace Lab task status and assessment results
  • Certificates and verifiable NIBS credentials
  • A facilitator, on the managed model
  • Delivery through NIBS e-Learning Cafes where learners need computers

Individual learner evidence stays private to the learner and the facilitator. You see the cohort, not the person's files.

Who buys
NGOs and NPOs, Employers and corporates, CSI programmes, Government departments and municipalities, SETAs and foundations, Universities, TVET colleges and schools, Community organisations and enterprise-development programmes.
Delivery
Online only, at an e-Learning Cafe, a managed cohort, or a formal programme. Same platform, same curriculum, different service configuration.
Accreditation
Where your requirement depends on accreditation status, we state the current status plainly before anything is agreed.