About NIBS
NIBS is the skills-to-work platform and the school behind it. It designs the Role Pathways and courses, sets the assessment standards, runs the Workplace Lab and NIBS Campus, and records verified competencies and credentials. Katlehong Computer School is its first e-Learning Cafe.
What NIBS does
NIBS is the platform and the academic authority. It designs what is taught, defines what competent work looks like, judges evidence against that definition, and keeps the record.
Every programme page states its current recognition status. NIBS does not claim external accreditation, a professional-body partnership or CPD approval until it is confirmed.
- Programme designRole Pathways and Skill Courses built around real occupations, with Learn, Do and Prove at the centre.
- Assessment standardsWhat competent work looks like, and how assessors judge it.
- Competency recordsEvery verified result recorded against the learner, with its evidence reference.
- CredentialsIssued, verifiable online, and revocable if issued in error.
Credentials NIBS issues
Each credential type carries its provenance: NIBS Verified, External Verified, or Self-declared.
Module Completion Attestation
Records that a learner completed one module of a NIBS programme. An item in the academic record, the Skills Passport and the transcript; not a certificate and not a record of competence.
Skills Certificate
Awarded for a standalone Skill Course only where the learner demonstrated competence in the skill area through assessed evidence. Never issued because every lesson was marked complete. Recorded on the Skills Passport.
Professional Certificate
Awarded for a complete Role Pathway: the required learning is complete, the required Workplace Lab evidence exists, the required competencies have been assessed as competent and the credential rule is met.
Recorded Credential
A credential issued by another institution, added by the learner. Verified only when NIBS confirms it with the issuer.
Certificate of Completion
Confirms that the learner completed the learning requirements of a NIBS course in the campus. Issued automatically on completion. It does not by itself certify workplace competence and is not an assessment.
How verification works
Every credential has an id in the form NIBS-XXXX-XXXX and a verification page. Anyone with the id can confirm the learner name, credential, issuer, issue date, type, status and the skills it covers. Nothing else is shown.
Credentials are private by default. A learner chooses which credentials to make public, and can withdraw that choice at any time. Revoked and expired credentials say so on their verification page.
- Never shown
- ID numbers, assessment records, uploaded evidence, internal notes or private profile data.
- Revocation
- A credential issued in error is revoked, and its verification page says so.
- External credentials
- Only marked External Verified when NIBS has confirmed them with the issuer.