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College Principal
OFO Code: 134502
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 134502
- Occupation
- College Principal
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- MANAGERS
- Unit group
- 1345 · Education Managers
Official description
Education managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the educational and administrative aspects of education services, primary and secondary schools, colleges and faculties and departments in universities and other educational institutions.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Further Education and Training College Programme Managers
- Directing administrative and clerical activities concerning student admissions and educational services
- Determining educational programs based on frameworks established by education authorities and governing bodies
- Organizing and implementing methods of raising additional funds in conjunction with parent and community groups and sponsors
- Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation, expenditure on supplies, equipment and services
- Providing leadership and guidance to teaching, academic and administrative staff as well as to students
- Developing and enforcing a disciplinary code to create a safe and conducive environment for students and teachers
- Evaluating the work of teachers and lecturers by visiting classrooms, observing teaching methods, reviewing instructional objectives and examining learning materials
- Supervising the maintenance of educational facilities
- Controlling selection, training and supervision of staff
- Implementing systems and procedures to monitor school performance and student enrolments
- Promoting the educational program, and representing the service or institution in the wider community
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.