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School Laboratory Technician
OFO Code: 235903
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 235903
- Occupation
- School Laboratory Technician
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2359 · Teaching Professionals not Elsewhere Classified
Official description
This unit group covers teaching professionals not classified elsewhere in sub-major group 23, professionals. For instance, the group includes those who provide private tuition in subjects other than foreign languages and the arts, and those who provide educational counselling to students.
More official OFO detail
- Assessing students’ level of ability and determining learning needs
- Assigning exercises and work relevant to students’ level of ability, interests and aptitude
- Revising curricula, course content, course materials and methods of instruction
- Preparing students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks
- Instructing and demonstrating practical aspects of the subject area being studied
- Planning, preparing and delivering programs of study, lessons and workshops for individual students and groups
- Preparing and presenting material on the theory of the subject area being studied
- Assessing students and offering advice, criticism and encouragement
- Counselling students to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioural problems affecting their education
- Counselling students regarding educational issues such as course and program selection, class scheduling, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning
- Preparing students for examinations and assessments
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
PathLens does not fall back to legacy specimen demand flags when governed evidence is unavailable.
A national demand signal is not a promise of a vacancy in your town.
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.