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FET college lecturers: The 'devolving' link in the South African skills development equation >

National attention on the role of skills development has focused on the role of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in providing intermediate-level education and training necessary to meet the South African national development challenge. I...

The marketing of public FET colleges in South Africa: Issues for policy and practice >

This paper considers the rising trend of introducing marketing practices into public education through the lens of South African further education and training colleges. It provides a review of the international literature on 'for-profit' and 'non-pr...

Towards better metrics of artisanal skills supply >

This presentation details the metrics needed for the various interdependent subsystems within an overall artisan development system.

Vocational education and training for sustainability in South Africa: The role of public and private provision >

This paper considers the role that skills development has in the sustainability of the South African political-economic project. It explores some of the disarticulations of public policy and argues that these both undermine public sector delivery and...

National qualifications frameworks in the global context >

This presentation addresses the following questions: What would be lost if national qualifications frameworks did not exist? Are these frameworks making a difference to individual citizens; How do we evaluate and 'measure' the impact of these framewo...

Measuring skills mismatch >

This note presents indicators that can be useful for the regular monitoring of skills mismatches across EU Member States. It distinguishes three broad groups of skills mismatch indicators: indicators of macroeconomic skills mismatch, specific skills...

Planning with purpose: The use of labour market intelligence for skills planning in South Africa >

This report is the final product of a 17 month-long Skills Planning Dialogue, funded by the EU-South Africa Dialogue Facility, with the aim of supporting the establishment by the Department of Higher Education and Training of a 'credible institutiona...

Project inception report: Development and using labour market intelligence for skills planning in South Africa >

South Africa over the past two decades has made significant but only partially successful efforts to establish a skills-planning architecture, and to improve both the quality and the supply of skills. The present Administration has re-committed to th...

Report of the second workshop of the EU-SA skills planning dialogue >

This note summarises the proceedings of the Second South Africa Workshop held under the auspices of the EU-SA Skills Planning Dialogue at Cricklewood Manor, Pretoria, on 10 November 2015. The workshop was attended by a total of 34 participants, inclu...

Report on the first workshop on international perspectives on skills planning and the South African case study >

This Note captures the discussions that took place at the First South Africa Workshop on Skills Planning, held in Pretoria on 25 March 2015 under the auspices of the EU-South Africa Skills Planning Dialogue. The workshop comprised of three elements,...

Guidance for higher education providers on current and future skills needs of enterprise >

This report has been developed to provide guidance for providers tendering for higher education places for those eligible to participate on Springboard+ courses during this round. It gathers together the most recently available data concerning higher...

The Expert Group on Future Skills needs statement of activity 2015 >

The Expert Group on Future Skills Needs (EGFSN) has the task of advising Government on future skills requirements and associated labour market issues that impact on enterprise development and employment growth. Specifically, the Group carries out ana...

International Labour Organisation: Future of Work Initiative. Theme 2: Decent jobs for all >

This paper will examine the long-stated ILO goal of full employment and decent work, and whether under current global, regional, and more specifically, national circumstances, such a goal is achievable in the next 20 years. The concepts of work, empl...

International Labour Organisation: Future of Work Initiative. Theme 3: The organisation of work and production >

The paper starts with an overview of the context in which changes to the organisation of work and production are likely to take place over the next two decades. It then looks at some basic aspects of this process at a global level, including the need...

Work education framework South Africa >

The Worker Education Technical Task Team, one of nine in the HRDC, commissioned a Worker Education Study in November 2012: To conduct an analysis and attain a common understanding of the current provision and understanding of the three pillars namely...

Worker education framework South Africa >

The Worker Education Technical Task Team, one of nine in the HRDC, commissioned a Worker Education Study in November 2012: To conduct an analysis and attain a common understanding of the current provision and understanding of the three pillars namely...

Disability toolkit: Employer toolkit for employing people with disabilities >

This is the first revision of Fasset's Employer Disability Toolkit. When the first Employer Disability Toolkit was released in 2009, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) had not yet finalised their highly beneficial tax deductions for employers p...

Fasset QCTO research background paper 2009 >

Fasset has appointed EE Research Focus (Pty) Ltd to work with role players in Fasset's sector and to revisit the financial occupation names and descriptions as they occur on the Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO). This project is necessary be...

Fasset scarce skills guideline 2013/2014 >

This guideline, distributed annually, is aimed at those who need to understand and identify scarce skills within the Fasset sector. Interested stakeholders may include educationalists, learners, parents, policy-makers, and education and training prov...

Fasset sector profile 2002 >

In October 2002, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) completed in-depth research into the Financial and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority's (Fasset's) sector in order to obtain an accurate and up-to-date profile of th...

Fasset sector skills plan 2005 to 2010: Update for the 2009/2010 financial year >

This report provides an overview of the sector, factors that influence change in the sector, the demand for skills, employment trends, the supply of skills, the availability of financial skills in the economy, formation of new skills for the sector,...

Fasset sector skills plan 2005 to 2011: Update for the 2010/2011 financial year >

This report provides an overview of the sector, factors that influence change in the sector, the demand for skills, employment trends, forecasted demand, the supply of skills, the availability of financial skills in the economy, formation of new skil...

Fasset sector survey 2012 final report >

This study is the third comprehensive Sector Survey commissioned by the Seta for Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services (Fasset). The study was conducted in the 2012/2013 financial year and its overall aim was to prov...

Fasset tracer study: The value of work-readiness programmes >

The main aim of this tracer study was to determine the value of the Bonani and Thusanani Work-Readiness Programmes. The specific objectives related to beneficiaries of the Work-Readiness Programmes and the employers where the beneficiaries were emplo...

Skills development in the financial and accounting services sector >

This study was commissioned by the Financial and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Fasset), with the main aim of providing the SETA with a detailed profile of the sector that it serves, a description of education and traini...

Survey of the financial and accounting services sector May 2008 final report >

The overall aim of the sector study was to provide Fasset with an integrated profile of the Financial and Accounting Services Sector, the education and training provision to the sector, and the skills needs and requirements of the sector. The specifi...

The need for strategic learnerships in finance, accounting, managment consulting and other financial services >

This study was commissioned by the SETA for Finance, Accounting, Management Consulting and other Financial Services (Fasset). The aims of the study were threefold: a) To conduct a demand analysis to establish the need for learnerships in the sector....

Women in management in the financial services sector in South Africa: A review of the literature >

The need to correct racial and gender imbalances and to increase the labour participation of all population groups in the South African economy is widely accepted. Despite legislation and other measures to eradicate inequalities, the 2007 employment...

The impact of the NQF on a professional body's view with a focus on the credibility, mobility and misrepresentation of qualifications >

This presentation focuses on the following topics: What is a profession? SAQA criteria for professional bodies; findings and recommendations; experiences of the NQF in relation to the credibility, mobility and authenticity of South African qualificat...

Gaming and lotteries industry consolidated report: Prorities and recommended actions for a demand-led approach to skills development in the gaming and lotteries industry >

CATHSSETA appointed FR Research Services to conduct skills analysis research on the Gaming and Lotteries Industry, which is a major sub-sector and levy contributor to the SETA. The purpose of the research is to determine the skills needs within the d...

Sports, recreation and fitness:- Graduate tracer dtudy >

This graduate tracer study established the whereabouts of CATHSSETA learners who have completed accredited qualifications in sport, recreation and fitness between 2011 and 2015. We trace graduates for the National Certificate in Fitness (NQF Level 5)...

Globalisation and education training in South Africa: On being GEAR(ed)! >

This paper takes as a point of departure that nations are able to respond to, and are responding to, the phenomenon in ways designed to extract maximum national benefit, albeit sometimes driven by a narrow-focussed short-termism. However, the capacit...

Globalisation and education training in South Africa: On being GEAR(ed)! >

This paper takes as a point of departure that nations are able to respond to, and are responding to, the phenomenon in ways designed to extract maximum national benefit, albeit sometimes driven by a narrow-focussed short-termism. However, the capacit...

Employer and learner experience of the phlebotomy techniques learnership funded by the HWSETA: A case study of Ampath Trust >

An evaluation project consisting of eight single case studies was conducted on the learnership programme of the Health and Welfare Sector Education and Training Authority (HWSETA). The aim of conducting this project was to evaluate the implementation...

Employment and learning pathways of learnership participants in the NSDS phase II >

It is striking that the period in which learnerships have been implemented is very short seven years. The challenges of creating a new skills development system based on the old fragmented and unequal system of 'manpower training' are vast. Empirical...

HSWETA supported programmes and projects: 2010-2013 >

The main goal of the HWSETA skills development programmes and projects is to provide skills to learners in the workplace in scarce and critical areas within the health and social development sector. Outcomes of the skills development interventions ar...

NSFAS funded programmes in health and social development sector 2013-2014 >

The aims of this paper are: to determine number of students funded through NSFAS in the health and social development programmes; to estimate the total amount of funding needed by students in the next financial year.

Research on unemployed learners in social auxiliary field in Limpopo, KZN and North West >

The objectives of the study are: To estimate the number of unemployed social auxiliary workers in LP, KZN and NW; To compare provincial unemployment distributions amongst SAWs.

Summative evaluation of the ancillary health care qualification and its associated skills programmes >

The aim of the study was to evaluate the possible impact and outcome the Ancillary Health Care (AHC) qualification and its related skills programmes may have had on previous learners and the community. This course was designed to provide learners wit...

Tracer study for learners who participated in HWSETA funded learnerships and internships certificated during the 2013-14 financial year >

The tracer study tracked and traced the target population of the National Skills Development Strategy III (NSDS III) within health and welfare sector which constitute of the individuals or learners 'from school, college or university, or even from th...

Understanding the skills needs of the NPOs operating within the health and welfare sectors >

A non-profit organisation (NPO) is a trust company or any other association of persons with a public rather than a private purpose and which does not operate for profit. In South Africa, NPOs are pivotal to the delivery of health-related community-ba...

Workplace skills plan analysis report: Examining the submission trends of 2012, 2013, and 2014 >

It is essential to have qualified and skilled employees in South Africa's Health and Welfare sectors; the Workplace Skills Plan (WSP) was implemented to realise this objective. The WSP is a plan that informs the Health and Welfare Sector Education an...

Chasing credentials and mobility: Private higher education in South Africa >

This books brings a different set of lenses to bear on what has become the subject of intense contestation, of 'media hype', in South Africa: the private provision of higher education. This books seeks to provide a way to move beyond any polarisation...

Education and poverty reduction strategies: Issues of policy coherence >

The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident, yet real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decades. This book interroga...

Higher education and work: Setting a new research agenda >

Higher education and Work consists of two papers. The first provides an analysis of research on graduate employment in South Africa and reflects on the state of research on graduate employment and unemployment in South Africa, while the second looks...

Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education >

All countries, and South Africa is no exception, face acute dilemmas in modernising their systems of upper secondary and further education and training. Faced with pressures from the fast-changing world of work, this education sector has become chara...

Private and further education and training in South Africa: The changing landscape >

Private provision of Technical and Vocational Further Education and Training (TVET) in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in the South African education system is an issue of national importance. To date however, information about the prec...

Shifting understanding of skills in South Africa >

This book is an attempt to examine the multiple and shifting meanings that skill has taken on in South Africa. It does so with a view primarily to how skill is being played out in contemporary policies and practices within the country, but it affirms...

Skills shortages in South Africa: Case studies of key professions >

South Africa's skills shortages are widely regarded as a key factor preventing the achievement of targeted growth rates. There is some dispute as to the nature and extent of these shortages, given that the country also has a large pool of unemployed...

Student retention and graduate destination: Higher education and labour market access and success >

Student attrition has been a perennial theme in South African higher education throughout the past decade. In its National Plan for Higher Education (2001), the Department of Education attributed high dropout rates primarily to financial and/or acade...

Teacher graduate production in South Africa >

The quality of any national education system depends on its teachers. In recent years in South Africa, teacher supply has become a matter of national concern. This monograph examines changes in enrolment and graduation patterns of education students...

The business of higher education: A study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa >

The phenomenon of partnerships between public higher education institutions and private providers of higher education in South Africa began in the early 1990s. While partnerships emerged in the distance education sub-sector, they soon became a featur...

Vocational education and training in Southern Africa: A comparative study >

This volume is intended to develop and share knowledge within the southern African region regarding the challenges faced by vocational education and training (VET) systems and the responses to these challenges. Some of these challenges arise out of t...

Alignment of Sector Skills Planning to the NGP >

This paper was developed under the auspices of the Human Resource Development Council as part of the work of the Task Team reviewing ways in which skills development (including all occupational training at the different levels of the post-schooling s...

Developing a national skills forecasting tool for South Africa >

In 2003, the South African Department of Labour, supported by the European Union, commissioned research to investigate the feasibility of developing quantitative forecasting models to help identify future skills needs in South Africa. The aims of the...

Feedback from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) on how it is taking the recommendations from the Skills System Review Technical Task Team (SSR TTT) forward >

The purpose of this annotation is to provide Council with a report on how DHET, after reflecting on the recommendations of the Skills System Review report as well as the inputs made by Council at the meeting of 05 December 2013 is taking them forward...

Forging college TVET partnerships: Implications for the post-school education and training system >

The purpose of this paper is to propose measures for strengthening and supporting partnerships between Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and a range of stakeholders. Since the advent of democracy there has been a prolife...

Maritime Sector Skills Technical Task Team (MSSTTT) report: Advancing skills development in the maritime sector >

South Africa (SA) has a skills crisis that mirrors global conditions, characterised by a mismatch between the available pool of employees and market demand which has been linked to a number of factors including state of the education system. Shortage...

On the brink? Skills demand and supply issues in the South African automotive and components industry >

This research report is more than simply an exploration of skills demand and supply issues in the South African automotive components industry. It is a report that explores the South African institutional environment's ability to supply a high value...

Profile of the TVET sector: Study on programmes identified and prioritised by the TVET Colleges Technical Task Team and its workstreams >

This brief report was compiled by TVET Colleges Technical Task for the HRDCSA Secretariat, as an input for the work of the HRDCSA Technical Working Group and Council. It includes: a summary of the major developments in the TVET college sector; an ove...

Review of the current skills development system and recommendations towards the best model for delivering skills in the country >

The purpose of the report is to provide the HRD Council with a set of options or models for redesigning the national skills development system so that it better meets the skills needs of South Africa both now and in the long term. In doing so, the re...

South African chemical sector report on skills development and the government's new economic policy priorities >

The primary aim of this project was to contribute to the attainment of greater alignment between skills development strategies and the development requirements of the South African (SA) chemical sector, in particular with the launch of the Accelerate...

Synthesis report of the TVET Colleges Technical Task Team: Strenghtening and supporting TVET colleges for expanded access and increased programme quality >

This report was developed by the Human Resource Development Council of South Africa (HRDCSA)'s Technical Task Team (TTT) on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges. The TVET Technical Task Team (TVET-TTT), formerly Further Educati...

Technical and Vocational Education and Training Technical Task Team (TVET TTT) >

This presentation highlights the importance of TVET colleges as seen in key government plans and strategies. It explores the central role of TVET colleges in addressing skills shortages to advance economic growth has been recognised; and the need for...

Technical Vocational Education and Training Technical Task Team (TVET TTT) >

The purpose of this annotation is to present proposed measures for strengthening and supporting TVET Colleges in order to: Expand access and improve the quality of provision.

The returns to training and the determinants of training expenditure: The case of manufacturing firms in South Africa >

This report makes use of a unique survey dataset of manufacturing firms in South Africa to investigate the returns to workplace training. This survey was conducted within a broader national project, the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP),...

TV Colleges purpose in a developmental state: Imperatives for South Africa >

The aim of this paper is to define and articulate the purpose of TVET colleges in South Africa using selected international comparisons. To achieve this, the study reviewed the theoretical basis of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training...

TVET Colleges in South Africa: Pathways workstream >

The purpose of the work stream on pathways is to identify examples of TVET College pathways that will ensure smooth transitions for students from college to employment, self-employment and higher learning. This work stream report will aim to provide...

Work education framework South Africa >

The Worker Education Technical Task Team, one of nine in the HRDC, commissioned a Worker Education Study in November 2012: To conduct an analysis and attain a common understanding of the current provision and understanding of the three pillars namely...

Worker education framework South Africa: Final report >

The aim of the present exercise is to develop a policy framework within which the competing interpretations and purposes of worker education can be accommodated on a sustained basis. The term 'integrated' refers to the policy level rather than the le...

Worker Education Technical Task Team (WE TTT) >

The purpose of this annotation is to present the final recommendations of the research and the work done by the Worker Education Technical Task Team.

Worker education framework South Africa >

The Worker Education Technical Task Team, one of nine in the HRDC, commissioned a Worker Education Study in November 2012: To conduct an analysis and attain a common understanding of the current provision and understanding of the three pillars namely...

Who benefits from knowledge for development? >

This article questions the notion of 'knowledge for development' being seen as an answer to the challenges posed by globalisation, ICTs and the knowledge economy.

An examination of the vocational education and training reform debate in Southern Africa >

This paper explores the role that vocational education and training (VET) can play in Southern African responses to major socio-economic challenges. It argues that this role will be most pronounced if it is articulated within a broader educational an...

Between a rock and a hard place: Understanding the balance between access and efficiency in South African higher education >

The article argues for a case for a 'revisioning' of the education policy-implementation nexus in the South African higher education sector. It is proposed that the well-meaning idealism expressed in policy pronouncements is necessarily subject to a...

Challenges facing adult education and training in the local government sector, South Africa >

The Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery (DGSD) Research Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) was commissioned by the Local Government Sector Education and Training Authority (LGSETA) to conduct research on the challenges fac...

Chasing credentials and mobility: Private higher education in South Africa >

This books brings a different set of lenses to bear on what has become the subject of intense contestation, of 'media hype', in South Africa: the private provision of higher education. This books seeks to provide a way to move beyond any polarisation...

City planners >

In the late apartheid era, it was assumed that the demand for planners post-apartheid would grow considerably due to the diversification of the field and a focus on the needs of the majority, rather than the minority. A study of the demand for planne...

Conference report: Conference on the reform of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) >

This Conference report covers the Conference on the reform of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) held in Gaborone, Botswana on 4-6 August 2003.

Contemporary issues in public FET colleges: Towards credible institutional mechanisms for skills planning >

This concept paper provides a snapshot view of salient contemporary issues in public Further Education and Training (FET) colleges arising out of successive policy interventions since 1998. The paper does not dwell on early concomitant developments i...

Creating knowledge networks >

A vision of the ideal partnerships between higher education and industry in a rapidly globalising knowledge economy is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, there is a great deal of dissonance between this vision and the realities of research, in...

Differential pathways of South African students through higher education >

This paper reports on a six-year study (2005 2010) tracking a cohort of students from Grade 12 into and through the South African higher education (HE) system. The study sought to ascertain how the pathways of students from different socioeconomic ba...

Education and poverty reduction strategies: Issues of policy coherence >

The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident, yet real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decades. This book interroga...

Education, training and skills development in the Cape Town City region: Background paper >

This background report provides an overview of current conditions, capacity and performance on the education and training supply side in the Cape Town City Region, as distinct from and in relation to provincial and national trends. The Cape Town City...

Educators: Scarce and critical skills research project >

The Department of Labour commissioned a Research Consortium which included the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to undertake a range of research projects on aspects of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) (1 April 2005   31...

FET college lecturers: The 'devolving' link in the South African skills development equation >

National attention on the role of skills development has focused on the role of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in providing intermediate-level education and training necessary to meet the South African national development challenge. I...

Globalisation and education training in South Africa: On being GEAR(ed)! >

This paper takes as a point of departure that nations are able to respond to, and are responding to, the phenomenon in ways designed to extract maximum national benefit, albeit sometimes driven by a narrow-focussed short-termism. However, the capacit...

Globalisation, education and training: Insights from the South African automotive sector >

This study seeks to explore these relationships between globalisation and education and training through an examination of certain transnational corporations, operating in one sector in a specific country. Through an examination of skills development...

Higher education and work: Setting a new research agenda >

Higher education and Work consists of two papers. The first provides an analysis of research on graduate employment in South Africa and reflects on the state of research on graduate employment and unemployment in South Africa, while the second looks...

ICT skills in the labour market: An occupational-level analysis focusing on computer professionals and associate professionals, 1996-2005 >

formation and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely understood to be an enabler of economic growth (UNDP 2001a). South Africa's Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, who launched the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (Asgisa), indic...

Independent schooling: Assessing its size and shape >

This presentation at the Independent Schools Conference focuses on the subject of: 'Independent schooling: assessing its size and shape'.

Investigating employer interaction with the Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) >

The focus of the present study is to investigate employer interaction with the Department of Labour's Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) system and to consider the status of ESSA in the context of employer perceptions of, and engagement with,...

Jobs? What jobs? Skills? What skills? An overview of studies examining relationships between education and training and labour markets >

This paper seeks to provide a discussion of South African and International literature concerning transitions (pathways) studies as well as the state of theory and analysis used in understanding the evolving relationship between education and work. M...

Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education >

All countries, and South Africa is no exception, face acute dilemmas in modernising their systems of upper secondary and further education and training. Faced with pressures from the fast-changing world of work, this education sector has become chara...

LMIP annual report april 2015-March 2016 >

The fourth year of the LMIP, April 2015- March 2016, marked a period where a number of research reports were produced and research findings disseminated through among others, policy roundtables, policy briefs, seminars, research bulletins, LMIP Updat...

Local economic responsiveness and TVET colleges: A guide to mapping TVET partnerships and linkages >

This research guide is intended as a resource for college managers and strategic planners to inform college strategic planning around responsiveness to local economic development. It provides tools to gather and analyse information on 1) economic and...

Making visible the invisible: Confronting South Africa's decent work deficit >

This report argues that national direct surveys of households, such as the biannual Labour Force Surveys issued by Statistics South Africa, are useful in measuring the numbers of those in employment, but that they are unable to measure the size and n...

Mapping key role players and SETA partnerships: A design and methodology to guide research on skills development systems >

In 2012, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to lead a national research consortium, the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP), to support it in creating a strategic l...

Measuring individual transitions and trajectories: A methodology to inform targeted policy implementation >

This presentation focuses on the following key points: that aggregate performance is a blunt measure; the notion of 'limited insight, less reliable'; trajectories technique leads to significant insights for policy intervention; and the need for a mor...

merSETA report: Impact assessment of learnerships and apprenticeships >

This study was commissioned by the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services SETA (MERSETA) with the aim of ascertaining the efficiency and effectiveness of the learnership and apprenticeship systems and to assess their impact on the demand for...

Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: Baseline study >

This study established the baseline status of institutions that will be supported by the SESD programme, namely the National Department of Education's FET Directorate, provincial FET Directories and designated colleges in the provinces of Kwa-Zulu Na...

Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: First fomative impact study-synthesis report >

This study established the baseline status of institutions that will be supported by the SESD programme, namely the National Department of Education's FET Directorate, provincial FET Directories and designated colleges in the provinces of Kwa-Zulu Na...

Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: First formative impact study (Synthesis report) >

This study established the baseline status of institutions that will be supported by the SESD programme, namely the National Department of Education's FET Directorate, provincial FET Directories and designated colleges in the provinces of Kwa-Zulu Na...

Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: Second formative impact study (synthesis report) >

This study established the baseline status of institutions that will be supported by the SESD programme, namely the National Department of Education's FET Directorate, provincial FET Directories and designated colleges in the provinces of Kwa-Zulu Na...

Occupational shifts and shortages: Skills challenges facing the South African economy >

This report extends the analysis of labour demand trends to the 2001-2012 period. It consists of a descriptive analysis of skill-biased labour demand changes, through an examination of sectoral and occupational employment growth trends. We also consi...

Pathways through the education and training system: Do we need a new model? >

This brief presentation uses the existing pathways model to illustrate blockages and bottlenecks in education-labour market articulation. In so doing it suggests a revised pathways model of education and training in South Africa.

Pathways through university and into the Labour Market Report on a graduate tracer study from the Eastern Cape >

In order to support the objectives set out in the Department of Higher Education and Training's (DHET) 2013 White Paper for Post-school Education and Training (PSET), it is critical to engage with a strong evidence base of research. To this end, the...

Perspectives on skills development and lessons for South Africa >

This presentation highlights skills planning in South Africa. It focuses on the following topics: The Current Realities; The Labour Force and Skills (2014); Sectoral Employment by sector, 2014; Contribution to GDP, 2014; Story 1: South Africa's perfo...

Private and further education and training in South Africa: The changing landscape >

Private provision of Technical and Vocational Further Education and Training (TVET) in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in the South African education system is an issue of national importance. To date however, information about the prec...

Projected skills and supply for the electrical energy sector >

The research aims to: Provide support for government's AsgiSA initiative with a particular focus on skills development and job creation; Contribute to the better alignment between skills development policies with industrial or sector initiatives/poli...

Protection of Personal Information Act: An analysis on the impact >

This presentation highlights the following key topics in relation to an analysis of the Protection of Personal Information Act: definitions, data protection conditions, accountability, processing limitation, purpose specification, further processing...

Public attitudes to work in South Africa >

The underlying assumption of the study is that understanding public attitudes offers insight into the factors that influence decisions about labour market and education participation. The research adds value by providing detailed attitudinal data in...

Recent internal migration and labour market outcomes: Exploring the 2008 and 2010 National Income Dynamics Study panel data in South Africa >

This paper explores the current nature of the links among the challenges of rural and urban unemployment and how these possibly lead to new patterns of recent internal migration, using the first two waves of the NIDS (2008 and 2010). In this context,...

Sectorial analysis of the aerospace industry in South Africa >

There is an on-going policy concern to ensure that South Africa has the appropriate skills base both now and in the future to sustain economic growth and to compete internationally in a number of identified 'priority sectors', including aerospace. Th...

SETA Labour Market Survey: Case studies of firms' experiences >

The overarching purpose of the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA) Labour Market Survey was to collect information that would assist in informing the Department of Higher Education and Training's (DHET) strategy on how to address one of it...

Shifting understanding of skills in South Africa >

This book is an attempt to examine the multiple and shifting meanings that skill has taken on in South Africa. It does so with a view primarily to how skill is being played out in contemporary policies and practices within the country, but it affirms...

Skills development for poverty reduction: Can FET colleges deliver? >

This report begins by establishing the envisaged role of FET colleges in the national development trajectory. This is followed by an analysis of the current form, context and challenges facing the sector in South Africa. It concluded by examining the...

Skills development in the financial and accounting services sector >

This study was commissioned by the Financial and Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority (Fasset), with the main aim of providing the SETA with a detailed profile of the sector that it serves, a description of education and traini...

Skills for development: A new approach to international cooperation in skills development? >

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) was a central tool of development cooperation from the 1950s through to the 1980s. However, with the rise of education for all in the 1990s, TVET 'fell from grace'. At the beginning of the twenty...

Skills shortages in South Africa: Case studies of key professions >

South Africa's skills shortages are widely regarded as a key factor preventing the achievement of targeted growth rates. There is some dispute as to the nature and extent of these shortages, given that the country also has a large pool of unemployed...

Smooth, staggered or stopped? Educational transitions in the South African Youth Panel Study >

This report uses the South African Youth Panel Study (SAYPS) - a longitudinal panel study - to follow Grade 9 learners who participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) in order to explore the educational transitio...

Social Work as a scarce and critical profession >

The constraint of high-level skills within the South African labour market is considered by government to be a key obstacle to achieving its target of a six percent economic growth rate. In support of the challenges to address skills shortages, the v...

South Africa National Skills Survey 2003 >

The aim of the NSS 2003 was to assess the overall impact of the National Skills Development Strategy and the impact of the levy-grant scheme on skills training in South Africa, in large, medium and small enterprises. In doing so the research was expe...

South African Labour Market Microdata Scoping Study >

This study investigates sources of data available for analysis of the South African labour market. It is a data discovery exercise to determine what data is available for policy research and to assist policy analysts to locate data sources relevant t...

South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS): An overview >

This presentation provides an overview of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). It highlights: history; broad aims; sample design; SASA content; a dynamic tool for policy-makers; core principles for module design; international comparati...

Student retention and graduate destination: Higher education and labour market access and success >

Student attrition has been a perennial theme in South African higher education throughout the past decade. In its National Plan for Higher Education (2001), the Department of Education attributed high dropout rates primarily to financial and/or acade...

Studying artisans in the manufacturing, engineering and related services sector >

Given extensive changes globally in the nature of training and employment of artisans over the last few decades, the Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA) commissioned the Human Sciences Res...

Survey analysis of the pathways of public TVET college learners through NATED programmes >

A number of research studies were conducted within this theme of research. The key questions that each of the studies attempted to answer is reflected in the following topics: 1. What is the progression, graduation and destination of secondary school...

Synthesis report: Assessing the impact of learnerships and apprenticeships under NSDSII >

Our study adopted a pathways conceptual approach (Raffe, 2003; Harris et al, 2006), focusing on the trajectories of (young) people in the transition from school to un/employment, various forms of further study, and into the labour market. Central to...

Synthetic analysis on the skills development and economic responsiveness role of education and training institutions in South Africa: Towards an integrated public-private partnership strategy for skills development in the TVET college system >

This synthesis report aims to inform strategic thinking in the TVET branch, towards devising a coordinated strategy to promote PPPs across all tiers of the system. We situate the current strategic initiatives to promote partnership in South Africa wi...

Teacher graduate production in South Africa >

The quality of any national education system depends on its teachers. In recent years in South Africa, teacher supply has become a matter of national concern. This monograph examines changes in enrolment and graduation patterns of education students...

Temporary employment services in South Africa: Assessing the industry's economic contribution >

The focus of this paper, is to try to understand the nature of employment changes and their impact in one particular sector, namely the temporary employment services (TES) industry. The sector, colloquially known in South Africa as the 'labour broker...

The business of higher education: A study of public-private partnerships in the provision of higher education in South Africa >

The phenomenon of partnerships between public higher education institutions and private providers of higher education in South Africa began in the early 1990s. While partnerships emerged in the distance education sub-sector, they soon became a featur...

The creative industries in South Africa >

This report delivers three observations made from an analysis of the South African data sources and research into creative industries since the CIGS process. First, data quality and availability: The first observation from this analysis is that resea...

The management profession and skills in South Africa: Report for the Scarce Skills Research Project of the Human Sciences Research Council >

The first challenge that one confronts in attempting to define the skills shortage among managers is the basic issue of who or what a manager is. Unfortunately, the challenge is not only confined to issues of qualifications; levels or types of manage...

The marketing of public FET colleges in South Africa: Issues for policy and practice >

This paper considers the rising trend of introducing marketing practices into public education through the lens of South African further education and training colleges. It provides a review of the international literature on 'for-profit' and 'non-pr...

The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) and the development of the higher education system in South Africa: A description of the demographics and performance of NSFAS beneficiaries >

This paper focuses on the time period 2000 to 2012, beginning in the year after the NSFAS was established by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme Act of 1999. We use a non-public data set provided by the NSFAS that contains some demographic info...

The post-matriculation enrolment decision: Do public colleges provide students with a viable alternative? >

This paper uses National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data for the period 2008 to 2015, together with administrative data on South African schools and post-secondary institutions, to estimate the relationship between enrolment in post-secondary educa...

The research-policy nexus in South Africa: Understanding the interface of science and policy in skills planning >

This paper examines the formation and operation of this research-policy nexus in South Africa and the means by which evidence-based policymaking has been conceived and utilised in this space. The paper is divided into five sections. Section 1 discuss...

The role of post-school education and training institutions in predicting labour market outcomes >

In this paper, we examine the role played by higher education institutions in two higher education labour market outcomes, namely the probability of employment and earnings. We use the first three 2 Blacks refer to Africans, Coloureds and Indians/Asi...

The role of skills and education in predicting micro-enterprise performance >

The research objective of this paper is addressed by firstly using direct and indirect measures of skills to generate a human capital profile of SMME owners across both the formal and informal sectors, and secondly by using econometric analysis to ex...

The shortage of medical doctors in South Africa >

This study on medical doctors forms part of a broader study entitled A multiple source identification and verification of scarce and critical skills in the South African labour market which is, in turn, one of a number of Skills Development Research...

The state of co-operatives in South Africa: The need for further research >

The purpose of a study on co-operatives is to draw a clear picture of the co-operatives status quo which includes how many they are, what they do, how the market for their products is, what the operating conditions are, what capacity enhancement need...

Tourism: Sector studies research project >

Within the context of the national importance assigned to the development of the South African tourism sector as a contributor to overall national economic and employment growth, this sector study attempts to answer one key question for its client, t...

Towards a generic survey of labour market information in South Africa >

This paper investigates the current state of South African firm-level studies. It is evident that divergence in when studies were researched and written and variation in research agendas and approaches hinders the understanding and tracking of the pr...

Towards understanding the distinctive nature of artisan training: Implications for skills planning in South Africa >

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) initiated the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), leading a consortium to conduct research to support the development of an institutiona...

Tracking progress on the implementation and impact of the Employment Equity Act since its inception >

The aim of the Employment Equity Act (EEA) of 1998 is to redress fundamental labour market inequities and to minimise discrimination on the basis of demographic profile (race, gender) as well as disability and HIV status. However, as we show in this...

Understanding interactive capabilities for skills development in sectoral systems of innovation: A tentative framework >

What we propose in this paper is a framework for analysing existing interaction and interactive capabilities in key sectoral systems of innovation (SSIs) in South Africa, as a basis on which to proceed. We have adopted a network and interactive capab...

Vocational education and training in Southern Africa: A comparative study >

This volume is intended to develop and share knowledge within the southern African region regarding the challenges faced by vocational education and training (VET) systems and the responses to these challenges. Some of these challenges arise out of t...

A critical review of research on skills development and labour market demand in the early childhood development sector (0–4 years) >

This paper contextualises training and skills development needs for Early Childhood Development (ECD) in South Africa with a particular focus on children between the ages of 0 and 4 years. It attempts to review and synthesise existing research on ski...

A self-sufficient skills development system in the sugarcane growing and milling sector in KwaZulu-Natal >

This presentation provides insights into the following topics: the South African sugar industry: Focus on sugarcane milling and growing; Developing a well-organised, self-sufficient skills development system; Examples of sugar technology and applied...

Analysing skills demand and supply in sectoral systems: A tentative framework >

This presentation addresses the following challenges: How do we address skills gaps in South Africa to improve alignment between what the E and T system produces, and the needs of the public and private sectors? How can industry and education organis...

Assessing the usability of the Western Cape Graduate Destination Survey for the analysis of labour market outcomes >

Graduate destination studies have the potential to provide detailed information about graduate transitions to work that cannot easily be collected in household surveys. However, response rates are typically very low and raise the concern that the non...

Astronomy and the Square Kilometre Array >

This presentation discusses network alignment, skills supply, challenges and successes in relation to the Astronomy and the Square Kilometre Array project.

Barriers and bottlenecks: Understanding youth transitions in the post-compulsory phase of school >

This presentation addresses the following topics: Throughput rate of learners to Grade 12 is of concern - Increasingly staggered progression as learners move through school; High and growing level of unemployment amongst youth population - 60% of une...

Briefing note: Creating a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning in South Africa >

This briefing note provides a high-level synopsis of six focus areas selected for discussion at the workshop: 1. A credible institutional mechanism for skills planning 2. The need for a SETA labour market survey 3. Attitudes to work: Social attitudes...

Briefing paper on private post-school education in South Africa >

This paper notes the explosion of private post-school provision globally during the past two decades. It then provides a brief outline of Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) research work done on private post-school education and training in South...

Briefing to the Minister of the Department of Higher Education >

In the global economy it is important to understand what types of skills are required to support productive and inclusive growth, and also how they will be produced. Unfortunately, South Africa does not have a credible institutional structure to trac...

Capabilities, innovation and skills development: Towards a new approach to planning post-school education and training in South Africa >

This presentationaddresses the challenge of developing a new planning approach for South African post-school education and training. Questions posed include: How do we address skills gaps in South Africa to improve alignment between what the E and T...

Considering firm surveys: Key data and methodological requirements and issues >

This document provides a broad definition of labour market information, concentrating on the type of labour market information required to support skills planning. It provides an overview of what, where and how this information is being collected (in...

Contemporary issues in public FET colleges >

This paper provides a snapshot view of salient contemporary issues in public Further Education and Training (FET) colleges arising out of successive policy interventions since 1998. The paper does not dwell on early concomitant developments in educat...

Contextualising informality in the South African labour market: Indicators of the limits to evidence-based research? >

This paper addresses the following: how do we begin to understand informality (and related concepts like unemployment) in context? This is vitally important considering how significant informality (particularly informality at the base of buyer-driven...

Creating a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning in South Africa (session 2) >

This briefing workshop to the Minister of Higher Education and Training focuses on Emerging trends from the MEMSA skills forecasting model; the need for a SETA Labour Market Survey; Attitudes to work: Social attitudes have a bearing on Labour Market...

Creating a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning in South Africa (session 3) >

This briefing workshop to the Minister of Higher Education and Training focuses on the topic of Responsiveness to firm demand: enhancing interactive capabilities across the post-school system; and Planning for artisanal skills: the importance of unde...

Critical review of the research on skills development in rural areas >

This paper aims to answer the following two overarching questions: what do we know about rural skills development in South Africa? What are key research challenges (conceptual, policy and methodological) to address as a first step to overcome the cou...

Data considerations for education and labour market indicators >

Education and labour market planning cannot take place in a vacuum. As the Department of Higher Education's (DHET's) Green Paper for Post-school Education and Training (DHET, 2012: 81) puts it, 'The foundation of any planning process is the existence...

Developing a framework for institutional planning and monitoring in FET colleges >

Drawing on international models of good practice, this paper outlines the emerging framework for M&E, introduced by the DHET in 2011, which takes into account the relationship between system-level monitoring and institutional monitoring. The document...

Developing a framework for understanding SETA performance: Monitoring and Evaluating their role in skills planning, steering and enabling supply within their sector >

The paper begins by exploring the central issue highlighted in a number of research reports on the SETAs: the absence of a shared understanding of their role. The paper argues that multiple objectives have an adverse effect on the performance of the...

Development of a national skills forecasting model >

This working paper argues that the development of a National Skills forecasting model is necessitated by the need to improve transparency in South Africa's labour markets, the desire to increase the skill level of its population, and the need to unde...

Differentiation in the post-school sector >

This paper begins from the bold assumption that it is intermediate skills that are critical to the future growth of the South African economy. Discussion in the Briefing Paper is arranged in the following way. Differentiation in higher education is c...

Employability and curriculum responsiveness in post-school education and training >

The relationship between educational processes and the employment of individuals is a significant policy concern and a widely debated social issue in South Africa. The apparent mismatch between industry needs and the educational outcomes of the South...

Employability and curriculum responsiveness in post-school education and training (LMIP Policy Roundtable) >

This LMIP policy roundtable briefing asks the following questions: How do we address skills gaps in South Africa to improve alignment between what the E and T system produces, and the needs of the public and private sectors? How can industry and educ...

Employability and responsiveness in post-school education and training institutions: A comparative literature review >

The first paper (Working Paper no. 8 in the LMIP series) has two main foci: a critical overview of employability and a summary of debates pertinent to Further Education and Training (FET) colleges and universities. Where relevant, perspectives from d...

Enhancing employability: What can be done to improve TVET students' chances of finding work? >

Unemployment of young people in South Africa is regarded as a crisis that needs urgent intervention. Disaffected and disillusioned youth are a potential threat to the long-term stability of the society as a whole. When graduates from institutions suc...

Establishing a foundation for labour market information systems in South Africa >

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the key issues and problems in establishing a labour market information system in an emerging economy. The paper is structured as follows: section one considers some of the key high-level foundat...

Estimating the current and future skills demand of government's national growth and development policies >

The purpose of this report is to assess government's economic-development policies as drivers of demand for skills. The main objective is to generate a broad estimate of the skills demand implications of implementing key development strategies, inclu...

From matric into and through university: Higher Education access and outcomes in South Africa >

This presentation covers a national representative quantitative analysis of transitions from school to university (Access), how matric results, demographics, and school background influence university outcomes, and how students progress through the p...

From matric into and through university: University access and success for the 2008 national matric cohort >

This presentation discusses the following topics: Project background, project context and research outputs; the context of why, how and what? Why does SA have so few graduates? Measuring university outcomes for the 2008 NSC cohort; why delayed univer...

Growth, employment and skills: The new growth path revisited >

This report has two broad objectives. Firstly, the report hopes to use the rubric of employment intensity and growth outlined in the NGP (EDD 2011) to assess and understand the output-growth implications of the job-creation targets set in the NGP. Se...

High-level audit of administrative datasets >

This High-level Audit of Administrative Datasets, as part of the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership programme, conducted research in more than 20 national government departments and other entities. The aim was to investigate the relevance of data...

High-level audit of administrative datasets (briefing) >

This research brief is based on a High-level Audit of Administrative Datasets. The study surveyed more than 20 national government departments and other entities with the aim to investigate the relevance of databases to skills planning, particularly...

Higher education access and outcomes for the 2008 national matric cohort >

This study uses a unique data set to investigate university access, throughput and dropout for the 2008 national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in ma...

Higher education, employment and economic growth: Exploring the interactions >

The purpose of this report is to interrogate the impact and nature of South Africa's post-apartheid economic growth performance through the lens of human-capital investment with a particular emphasis on higher education. In this report, the authors i...

History and the economy matters for artisanal skills planning >

The re-establishment of a good artisan training system was identified as a key research focus area and urgent priority, given that 'the apprenticeship system has been allowed to deteriorate since the mid-1980s, resulting in a shortage of mid-level sk...

How can universities and colleges improve the alignment between education and work? A systemic, demand-led approach to skills planning and development >

This policy brief proposes a framework that can be used by PSET organisations and skills planners to analyse the current alignment - or misalignment - between labour market demand and skills supply within a system. This framework provides a basis for...

How do we get firms and post-education and training organisations to work together? >

This presentation focuses on how to get firms and post-education and training organisations to work together through research communication, capacity building, workshops, and policy roundtables. The following needs and questions are discussed: Unders...

How do we take the changing nature of artisanal work and occupations into account? >

This presentation illustrates how the researchers take the changing nature of artisanal work and occupations into account. The following topics are covered: History and economy matters, occupational domains matter, and the relation between work and t...

How well matched are South African workers to their jobs? A comprehensive analysis of education and skills mismatch >

The working paper presents an econometric analysis of the data on public perceptions of work and thus serves as an extension of the research agenda seeking to gain more insight into social attitudes of ordinary South Africans to the labour market. Sp...

Indicators and data to support skills planning in South Africa >

The purpose of this presentation is to: Provide a background to the LMIP work and why DHET/ skills planning needs a set of indicators; Present the framework for determining what indicators will be developed (conceptual approach); Outline the methods...

Innovation, skills development and South African labour market intelligence >

The interface between innovation and skills development is relevant to a range of policy imperatives, including those outlined in the Medium-Term Strategic Framework, the Department of Higher Education's National Skills Development Strategy III, and...

Institutional alignment in the knowledge economy: Lessons from Square Kilometre Array telescope >

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership is a collaboration between the Department of Higher Education and Training and a national research consortium, led by the HSRC. It aims to provide analytical insights which support the development of policie...

Institutionalising tracer studies to assess the impact of workplace-based training: Reflections on feasibility >

The main objective of the project was to scope and consider the feasibility of institutionalising tracer studies relating to WPBL programmes. The report engages with this objective in the following ways: Firstly, it evaluates tracer-type research int...

Institutionalising tracer studies to assess the outcomes of workplace based training: reflections on feasibility >

This presentation details a scoping project embarked to determine: The extent to which past data problems have been addressed; What work-based skills programmes will be feasible to include in a set of institutionalised tracer studies? What is the cur...

International comparative analysis of skills planning indicator systems across national contexts >

This report is one of a number of inputs into a broader selection process to determine the optimal set of indicators for the South African con-text. The selection of indicators in use within any labour market reflects the local policy priorities wher...

Investigating employer interaction with the Employment Services of South Africa (ESSA) (briefing) >

This policy brief is based on an analytical study, with the objective to investigate employer interaction with the ESSA system while considering the status of ESSA in the context of employer perceptions of, and engagement with, the various recruitmen...

Learning session: Methodologies to identify skills needs >

The search for appropriate methodologies to identify 'skills needs' is high on the agenda of many countries around the world. In South Africa, a range of different approaches are currently being used to inform the identification of 'skills needs', re...

LMIP colloquium 29 and 30 September 2016: Report on the presentations, discussions and conclusions of the colloquium >

In late September 2016, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) convened a research colloquium. The intention was to create a space for researchers, policy makers, planners, educators and...

LMIP policy roundtable III: Responding to shifting demands for skills: How do we get firms and post-school education and training organisations to work together? >

This is the agenda for the LMIP policy roundtable III, held at the Protea Hotel Capital on 21 August 2014.

LMIP policy suggestions >

Each month, since May 2014, the LMIP has produced evidence-based policy relevant insights to inform the development and operation of the skills planning mechanism. This document consolidates those insights and highlights key findings from the LMIP's...

LMIP Roundtable Theme 5: Post-schooling training and higher education: Key issues for skills development and the labour market >

This presentation focuses on the key question: How is South Africa responding labour market and skills challenges? The presentation aims to respond to, and address, the fragmentation and 'lack of credibility' of supply and demand side skills informat...

LMIP update 2012-2013 >

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) together with other related projects holds the promise of refining our tools for an informed and informative skills planning approach, tailored to the specific needs and policy context of South Africa...

LMIP update 2014 >

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership is a collaboration between government and a national research consortium that aims to build a credible institutional mechanism for skills development in South Africa. The first section of LMIP Update 2014 ou...

LMIP update 2016 >

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership is a collaboration between government and a national research consortium that aims to build a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning and development in South Africa. This report is a product of...

Mapping key role-players and partnerships: A design and methodology >

This presentation guides research on skills development systems. In South Africa, there is a range of methodologies for understanding supply and demand, for different purposes. These include manpower planning, forecasting, sectoral plans (SIPS/Water/...

National scarce skills list: Top 100 occupations in demand: Comments from the LMIP Team >

This document is provides feedback on the scarce skills list gazetted by the Departmemt of Higher Education and Training

Occupational shifts and skills challenges facing the South African economy >

Despite robust economic growth over much of the past 20 years, South Africa still faces significant challenges in terms of high unemployment, poverty and inequality. One view of what underlies persistently high unemployment rates is that the economy...

Outcome 5.1.1: 'A credible institutional mechanism for skills planning' >

This presentation to Minister Nzimande, DHET details: Research completed; why skills planning is needed; what approach to skills planning and labour market intelligence systems is needed; an information framework guiding skills planning; who will be...

Pathways through university and into the labour market: Tracer study from the Eastern Cape >

This policy brief (from the HSRC's Labour Market Intelligence Partnership) is based on a recent LMIP report that explored the findings of a graduate tracer study conducted in the Eastern Cape. The broader objective of the study was to explore key edu...

Policy Roundtable 6: Knowledge-based artisanal futures? >

This presentation highlights the following topics raised at the Policy Roundtable 6: Knowledge-based artisanal futures? Local Context: Artisan training; Global context: Technological progression leads to increasing economic reliance on knowledge-driv...

Public attitudes to work in South Africa >

This policy brief is based on an analytical study, with the objective to assess public attitudes towards the South African labour market. To address this question the study canvassed the opinions of both the employed and the unemployed. The study the...

Public attitudes to work in South Africa: A missing link >

This presentation is about a survey about social attitudes to the labour market. It examined public attitudes to work to gain a deeper understanding of work values, and preferences and experieences, and work seeking behaviour.

Responsiveness and employability: An argument for building interactive capabilities in technical vocational education and training colleges in South Africa >

Public vocational education and training (VET) institutions have long been enjoined to be more responsive to industry needs. However, this policy orthodoxy is weakly theorised. One result is that learners and providers are counselled to focus on imme...

Schooling inequality, higher education and the labour market: Evidence from a graduate tracer study in the Eastern Cape, South Africa >

This presentation at the International Council on Education for Teaching (ICET) 59th World Assembly 'Challenging Disparities in Education' in Tokushima, Japan addresses the following subject: Schooling inequality, higher education and the labour mark...

SETA labour market pilot survey: Results and key learnings >

Through discussions with the wider reference group HSRC, DHET, and SETAs it was concluded that the overarching purpose of the SETA Labour Market pilot survey is for it to act as a tool to contribute to the process of establishing a credible skills pl...

Skills mismatch and informal sector participation among educated immigrants: Evidence from South Africa >

The presentation looks at employment outcomes for immigrants relative to natives in the SA labour market. Particularly, we show that: conditional on education, immigrants from different countries have different likelihoods of being employed in a skil...

Skills Planning for Post-School Education and Training >

The presentation provides an overview of the Research-Policy Nexus DHET-HSRC led research consortium. The strategic applied research involved a close relationship between policy makers and research in shaping the skills planning research agenda. It h...

Skills supply and demand for South Africa: LMIP Colloquium presentation >

This presentation looks at the Skills Supply and Demand in South Africa Report. The challenge for government is to estimate and anticipate the education and skills required to support societal development and a productive and inclusive economic growt...

Skills, innovation, and interactive capabilities in the astronomy sector: The case of the Square Kilometre Array telescope >

This presentation provides and overview of the following topics: Astronomy and the SKA; The Labour Market Intelligence Research Partnership; Research question and theoretical framework; Methodology; The Astronomy Sectoral System of Innovation; Skills...

Skills, innovation, and interactive capabilities: The case of the Square Kilometre Array telescope >

This presentation focuses on the following topics: a working framework; methodology; the growth in astronomy despite a shortage of astronomers; network structure and alignment; interactive capabilities at the SKA; firm strategies to address skills ne...

Skills, technology and capital intensity: Employment and wage shifts in post-apartheid South Africa >

This presentation of the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership Policy Roundtable focuses on the following topics: Data; Changing Employment Landscape - Sectoral and Skills-biased trends; Skills-Biased Technological Change - A Decomposition Analysis;...

Smooth, staggered or stopped? Educational transitions in SAYPS >

This presentation introduces the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP). It then supplies an overview of the South African Youth Panel Study (SAYPS) Report which analyses the characteristics of learners making different transitions and explore...

Smooth, staggered or stopped? Educational transitions in the South African Youth Panel Study >

The South African Youth Panel Study (SAYPS) followed Grade 9 learners who participated in TIMSS 2011 over four consecutive years, in order to explore the educational transitions of young people. The study found that: South African learners follow one...

South African Labour Market Micro-data Scoping Study >

This policy brief is based on a South African Labour Market Micro-data Scoping Study. The purpose was to investigate sources of micro-data1 available for analysis of the South African labour market. The study provided an overview of the wide range of...

Studying professions in shifting occupational contexts >

This presentation illustrates the following topics: South AFrica study using boundaries; a working conceptual frame; extending an analytical frame; a case of mechatronics in the automotive sector; and their relevance to current debates.

The boundaries of artisanal work and occupations, and its intersections with inequality >

This presentation provides an overview of the research question, before illustrating the following topics: An LMIP theme of research entitled 'Changing Artisanal Milieus and Identities'; the concept of boundaries: why and how? Empirical cases; sample...

The changing nature of artisanal work and occupations: What knowledge and skill does a 21st century artisan need? >

This presentation addresses the following question: what knowledge and skills does a 21st century artisan needs; and what would a 'good artisan training system' look like?

The emerging contours of a credible institutional planning mechanism for South Africa: Towards a common perspective >

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) hosted a policy roundtable to open debate on the nature and shape of an appropriate institutional skills planning mechanism for South Africa. The event drew a range of stakeholders from across the SET...

The Labour Market Intelligence Partnership: Emerging findings >

This briefing reflects on two dimensions of the work of the LMIP: findings from the research, and the relationship between DHET and the research community in this exercise.

The role of skills and education in predicting micro-enterprise performance >

This presentation discusses the following topics in relation to the role of skills and education in predicting Micro-enterprise performance: Context and motivation; Research objective; Methodology; Data; Human capital profile of the SMME sector; Econ...

Understanding interactive capabilities for skills development >

This presentation focuses on the following challenges: How to address skills gaps in South Africa to improve alignment between what the Education and Training system produces, and the needs of the public and private sectors? How can industry and educ...

Understanding labour demand in South Africa and the importance of data sources >

Building a Labour Market Intelligence System requires both demand and supply side information. Thus, the LMIP is concerned with establishing the foundation for labour market information systems (LMIS) in South Africa in which data on labour demand is...

What is the current state of research on PSET? >

This presentation defines the PSET sector as an 'inverted pyramid' that also reflects the scale and focus of the formal published research literature. Additionally, it asks the following key questions about the state of research on PSET: Who conducts...

Why changes to occupational domains matter for artisanal skills planning in South Africa >

This Policy Brief argues that we need a more nuanced understanding of the shifting boundaries of artisanal work and occupational domains. In particular, it presents two key findings emerging from research that evaluated changes to the nature of artis...

Knowledge-based aid: A four-agency comparative study >

Part of the response of many development cooperation agencies to the challenges of globalisation, ICTs and the knowledge economy is to emphasise the importance of knowledge for development. This paper looks at the discourses and practices of 'knowled...

Skills for productive citizenship for all: The place of skills development for micro and small enterprises in South Africa >

Three important elements of a South African vision for high skills must be spreading skills improvements across the population in general, creating policy coherence and constructing new institutions. This article examines these issues through an inve...