The Design Academy of Fashion (DAF) provides high caliber education and training in the Fashion sector for secondary school exit level learners. DAF is a private institution that offers a 3-year Diploma in Fashion. The course equips you with the correct tools to be successfully employed in the fashion industry.
The Academy has a contemporary approach to education. By discovering the world around them students are encouraged to explore the possibilities of what they could be. DAF students, with the guidance of passionate and enthusiastic facilitators, become dedicated, responsible and confident members of society.
Mission Statement
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REGULATION 26(D)
To ensure individual attention, caring and commitment to learners while providing quality education and training thereby enabling every student to develop and reach their full potential potential to enter the fashion industry with confidence and expert knowledge and skills.
OBJECTIVES:
- To create a harmonised environment that works in coherence with the relevant structure, policies and practices of the institution.
- To prepare the institution to establish a leading position in the market place by offering well researched and structured learning programmes.
- To practice quality management in order to continuously reflect upon and improve the institution’s financial, human and infrastructural resources.
- To encourage and support a positive and safe teaching and learning environment for all learners, staff and visitors at the institution.
- To engage in professional and ethical practices in accordance with good practice principles towards quality provision.
Design Academy of Fashion (Pty) Ltd is provisionally registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training until 31 December 2013 as private higher education institution under the  Higher Education Act 1997. Provisional certificate No.2010/HE07/002.
Design Academy of Fashion (Pty) Ltd is accredited by the Higher Education Quality Committee(HEQC) of the Council on Higher Education(CHE) to offer the Diploma:Fashion.
Design Academy of Fashion (Pty) Ltd is also registered on the National Qualifications Framework(NQF) of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) as being registered by the department of Education to offer the Diploma:Fashion.
Design Academy of Fashion (Pty) Ltd is a member the Association of Private Providers of Education Training and Development (APPETD).
For more information with regards to the DAF policies and procedures please download the relevant documents:
DAF Prospectus 2011
DAF Enrolment Form 2011