As per the National Credit Framework (NCrF), one Credit is equal to how many notional learning hours?

Under the National Credit Framework one credit equals thirty notional learning hours, so a full year of about twelve hundred learning hours earns forty credits.

Thirty hours covers all forms of learning counted, including classroom teaching, laboratory work, projects and self-study.

The figures of forty, forty-five and sixty do not match the framework's fixed value of thirty hours per credit.

Notional hours capture the total effort a typical learner needs, not just contact hours in class.

The framework creates a single credit scale spanning school, higher and vocational education.

This common measure lets credits be stored and transferred through the Academic Bank of Credits.