For individuals · Study with HCC
Earn a nationally recognised qualification, from NQF 1 to 8, in the classroom, at work or from home. Anyone can apply, employed or unemployed, and a person at HCC guides you from your first question to your certificate.
For individuals
Employed or unemployed, on your own or through an employer, and students with disabilities: the same qualification and certificate for all.
Good to knowYou can have one occupational qualification in progress at a time; the next one unlocks when you complete it. Skills programmes and short courses can run alongside.
Whoever you are and wherever you start, you study for the same qualification and the same certificate.
Quality assured
Point at a quality partner to see its programmes, with the NQF level, credits and type, and which are open now. The QCTO and the SETAs quality-assure every one.
Each segment is one partner’s share of the 129. The green band marks programmes available now. Point at or tap a partner to see its programmes.
13quality partners: the QCTO and twelve SETAs
34programmes available now, with 8 partners
95more from 2027, as five partners join
NQF 1–8from first rung to professional, in 10 career fields
Quality partner
37programmes
Delivery modes
The same programme, the same moderated assessment and the same qualification, in the classroom, at work or at home. Hybrid means a mix: the percentage tells you which side leads.
100% in person
129of 129 programmes
At an HCC venue or at your site, with practical work on real equipment.
60%+ in person
121of 129 programmes
Most credits in the room, with fewer venue days and live online sessions.
51%+ online
74of 129 programmes
Learn at work or at home, and come in person only where the programme needs it.
100% online
35of 129 programmes
From anywhere, on any device, with live classes and replays.
Final external assessments are supervised in every mode.
The HCC Online Campus
It runs alongside every programme, Face2Face, hybrid or online, and gives students and organisations the same trusted record. You learn in the room; the Online Campus keeps the record.
Attendance and marks recorded in class, and paper work scanned to the student’s record by HCC.
Online and in-person sessions in one timetable, with work submitted online or on paper.
Every class, task and assessment online, invigilated sittings logged, and progress tracked live.
Training a team? See what organisations get →
For every student, employed or unemployed, in every delivery mode.
Shared by everyoneStudents, facilitators and organisations, in every mode
Soft skills short courses
Build the skills employers look for, from AI at work to leadership, with a certificate of attendance.
100courses, all available now
10themes
01Adaptability to TechnologyAI & the Digital WorkplaceAvailable now
One line per course, in ten themed blocks. All 100 courses are available now. Point at a line or a theme to read it.
Non-accredited HCC short courses, facilitated, with a certificate of attendance. They carry no SAQA ID, NQF level or credits, and are not counted in the 129 programmes.
HCC Online Campus · Launch
Opens at 00:00 on Tuesday, 1 December 2026, South African time: your classes, tasks, marks and records in one place.
HCC emails you when it opens. Your address is used for nothing else.
Assessment Centre
For studentsAssessed by an accredited centreFor qualifications in our scope, you sit your final assessment with us in Century City, and the QCTO issues your certificate.
GrowingMore added to our scopeWe are extending our assessment-centre accreditation, qualification by qualification.
Coming next
One place for every class, task, mark and record, for students and for the organisations that train them, whichever way they learn.
Opening day
Tuesday, 1 December 2026
From 2027
The HCC app, on every device
Android · iOS · macOS · Windows · Linux
Strategic intent
To be the long-term capability partner that future-proofs the workforce and aligns every programme to real goals.
Who we are
Since 2013 we have had one ambition: to change the landscape of skills development in South Africa, with the student at the centre of everything we do.
We help organisations turn workforce potential into measurable performance, and individuals turn ambition into a recognised qualification, Face2Face, hybrid or online.
To stand as a foremost authority in workforce development across Southern Africa.
To set the standard for world-class learning, defined by quality, consistency and relevance.
What drives us
Four values, and one standard for every student who climbs with us.
We do what we say, every time.
One moderated standard for all.
Opportunity for every student.
Growing careers, stronger teams.
Our clients
Since 2013, household names, from multinationals to growing businesses, have trusted HCC to train their people, to the same standard every student gets.
10 national brands across 7 sectors.
And growing businesses and the public. Members of the public study with HCC as individuals, too.
Send us a message
Choose what it is about, add a few details and press send. It goes straight to our team, and a person replies.
Office hours
Your details go straight to HCC’s inbox and nowhere else. This website does not keep them, and we handle them in line with POPIA.
What’s next
The full website and the Online Campus open together on 1 December. Until then, everything you need is on this page, and our team is a phone call or an email away.
