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Private Tuition Music Teacher
OFO Code: 235401
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 235401
- Occupation
- Private Tuition Music Teacher
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2354 · Other Music Teachers
Official description
Other music teachers teach students in the practice, theory and performance of music outside the mainstream primary, secondary and higher education systems, but may provide private or small group tuition as an extra curricular activity in association with mainstream educational institutions.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Flute / Guitar / Piano / Violin Teacher, Singing Teacher (Private Tuition)
- Teaching students to read and write musical notation
- Assessing students and offering advice, criticism and encouragement
- Planning, preparing and delivering programs of study, lessons and workshops for individual students and groups
- Organizing and assisting in auditions or performances of students' work
- Revising curricula, course content, course materials and methods of instruction
- Preparing students for examinations, performances and assessments
- Assigning exercises and teaching pieces of music relevant to students’ level of ability, interests and talents
- Preparing and presenting material on the theory and interpretation of music
- Arranging visits and tours to musical performances
- Instructing and demonstrating practical aspects of singing or of playing a particular instrument
- Assessing the students’ level of ability and determining needs and learning goals
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
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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.