The lingua franca of commerce and industry in South Africa is English. It follows that a poor command of English and lack of basic literacy skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) makes it impossible for the transferee* to take written instruction, let alone upgrade his/her language skills.

Trainability in an English language environment and English literacy skills level go hand in hand.

The Institute provides a measuring instrument named ELSA (English Literacy Skills Assessment), to:

• Serve as a Trainability Predictor
• Use as a Selection Tool
• Place in Learning programmes

Reading and Writing skills are learnt using Literati, an accelerated, fun-filled board-based programme to have adults master these basic skills in 3 weeks (block-release) or 80 hours staggered , but in their mother-tongue. This will fast-track English literacy programmes to follow. 

*A transferee is a person who, in order to make a living, has to transfer daily from his/her natural language environment (and culture) to a different language environment (and culture) and is assumed/expected to cope like a mother-tongue user.

The Kaleidoprax Institute subscribes to the principles of SAQA and the NQF.

Kaleidoscope HR (Pty) Ltd has full Provider Accreditation with the ETDPSETA.

Our main focus is the quality of education and training activities in workplace learning programmes. 

We believe that both learning content and the process of learning facilitation should be aligned to the principles of outcomes-based education, adult learning and also interactive and discovery learning. 

We build capacity in ETD (Education, training and development) staff by offering Assessor, Facilitator, Evidence Coach and Learning material design courses.

We design or re-package learning material:

• To assist the facilitator to provide the most effective learning experiences.
• To make material interesting and visually attractive.
• To ensure that learner involvement drives for transfer of learning.
• To ensure that learning activities integrate with current frames of reference

Our Learning Design Model is suited to both paper-based as well as electronic platform delivery.