Accreditation
Calvary Life Tutors offers a a range of short courses which are learning program builders that lead to qualifications offered by accredited organizations such as Calvary University. These short courses are unchanged parts of the programmes which were accredited by SAQA (South African Qualifications Authority) in February 2000. Since this process has become too expensive and drawn out, CLT has withdrawn from the process of accreditation for the Bachelor programme, but offers mentoring for the short courses which lead up to this qualification. This means that a church member who wishes to acquire experience through quality learning can use this opportunity to aquire rpl credits for a Certificate and Diploma (level 5) which leads to a First Degree (Bachelor Degree) (level 6) at Calvary University.
Students may register at the institution of their choosing. CLT does not represent any Higher Educational Institution, and advises that students make their own choice after evaluating the various institutions with respect to Quality, Faculty, Service, Practical, Life-giving, and Cost.
In offering mentoring, Calvary Life Tutors is also accredited by Christian Quality Assurance (CQA) whose Quality Management System and international Standards for Accreditation are applied by CLT in order to assure acceptance for its mentoring practices. For this reason Calvary University (CU) has been known to recognize CLT's short-courses for a Certificate in Ministry, a Diploma in Ministry. Our students can register with them for a Bachelor of Ministry degree to be mentored by us to attain the credits. About 540 Churches have given full recognition to these CU programmes.
It is generally accepted by the public and alumni that the CLT course material we use in mentoring is of good quality, broader in scope than usual and of sufficient depth to form the text book basis for quality training in Ministry. Accreditation would only add to this unanimous voice from an official point. Since our withdrawal from (local) accreditation for higher education, CLT has not lost any ground in student numbers, but has in fact still gained acceptance as fasillitators of credit learning.
A student studying with CLT will have the following options for short courses which are programme builders towards a:
- Certificate in Ministry – CLT (2 courses, Phase 1 & 2)
- Diploma in Ministry – CLT (1 additional course, Phase 3)
Students may furthermore register with a higher educational institute such as Calvary University (CU) to have the following qualifications issued — after facilitation by CLT:
- Bachelor of Ministry – CU
- Bachelor of Counselling – CU
- Bachelor of Divinity – CU
- Bachelor of Ministry (Honours) – CU
- Bachelor of Counselling (Honours) – CU
- Bachelor of Divinity (Honours) – CU
- Master of Ministry – CU
- Master of Divinity – CU
- Master of Counselling – CU
- Doctor of Ministry – CU
- Doctor of Divinity – CU
- Doctor of Counselling – CU
- Ph.D. in Various fields– CU
It is the policy of Calvary Life Tutors to continuously negotiate with several Higher Educational Institutions to have agreements in place for the benefit of the students in order to facilitate their further studies at the College or University of their choice.
Facilitation permission for the above programmes is already in place.
Note: CLT does not act on behalf of any Higher Educational Institute and facilitates training as a mutual agreement between CLT and the student after the student has already registered with an HE institution of choice.