Mining Qualifications Authority (MQA)

The Mining Qualifications Authority (MQA) is a Sector Education and Training Authority that facilitates skills development in the mining and minerals sector under the Department of Higher Education and Training and supports mine health and safety under the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy.
The following are the MQA’s strategic objectives: 

•    Promote efficient and effective governance and administration. 
•    Improve skills development planning and decision-making through research. 
•    Promote work-based skills development to support transformation in the mining and minerals sector. 
•    Facilitate access to occupationally directed learning programmes for the unemployed. 
•    Support training initiatives in mining communities. 
•    Ensure the delivery of quality learning programmes in the mining and minerals sector.    

With clean audit reports for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 financial years, the MQA continues to administer learnerships, skills programmes, internship and work experience programmes, and bursaries.

For more information, please contact the MQA.