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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...

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...

Recent internal migration and labour market outcomes: Exploring the 2008 and 2010 National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) panel data >

The main objectives and broad questions of this presentation are: Within the LMIP - paper explores the NIDS data - through recent migration; main research question: are there links between recent migrations of individuals (x) and employment status/la...

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,...

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...

Understanding the history of artisan training in a macroeconomic environment >

This presentation highlights the following key needs when considering an understanding of the history of artisan training in a macroeconomic environment: 1. Bring historical lens to the training systems and demand schedules (economic growth path/s) w...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pathways of TVET college learners through TVET colleges >

This presentation details the research study that was commissioned by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and DHET The study is located within Theme 5 of the HSRC Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) that has multi-cohort panel studie...

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...

A new approach to the evaluation of vocational education and training >

This presentation presented at the LMIP Seminar South Africa August 2014 highlights A new approach to the evaluation of Vocational Education and Training.

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...

Beyond aid effectiveness: The development of the South African further education and training college sector, 1994–2009 >

The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor harmonisation and, increasingly, budgetary support. However, this approach is limited in a number of wa...

Beyond the basics: Educating and training out of poverty >

The International Journal of Educational Development exists to debate issues about the relationship between education and development. One of the perennial elements of these debates has focused on identifying the most suitable types of education to e...

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...

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...

Made to measure? Some international reflections on developing VET Indicators >

The DHET Labour Market Intelligence project is one of the largest scale attempts globally in recent years to develop systems and capacity to measure the performance of post-compulsory education and training systems. As such, it offers the prospect of...

Meeting routine skills needs in the tier 1 automotive component sector in the Eastern Cape >

This presentation is on the Automotive Components: Nature of the Case Study. It is focused on: the Eastern Cape; considers the sectoral system of innovation around 'tier 1 firms': the main component suppliers to the global automotive manufacturers; t...

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...

Post-basic education and training and poverty reduction in South Africa: Progress to 2004 and Vision to 2014 >

In this paper, the authors explore the rationale for a focus on PBET as a major tool in poverty reduction in South Africa. This requires a consideration of the specific pattern of development of South Africa through colonialism, Apartheid and ten yea...

Responding to shifting demand for skills: How do we get firms and post-school education and training organisations to work together? >

This report represents work in progress, that is, a first attempt to synthesise and highlight trends emerging from our research, primarily to inform initial discussion and debate. We have conducted three in-depth case studies that provide a systemic...

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 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 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...

Skills for work and life: Towards a transformative approach >

This presentation focuses on: the return of skills and work to the development agenda.; thinking more radically about skills and work; existing VET orthodoxy; productivism; employability, UNESCO's three skills lenses; a new, broader notion of VET; a...

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...

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 role of education in development: An educationalist's response to some recent work in development economics >

This paper delves beneath the widespread belief that education (often repackaged as human capital) is important in development to consider the role that the discipline of education plays in shaping the wider discourses of development. In particular,...

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 interactive capabilities for skills development in sectoral systems of innovation: A case study of the tier 1 automotive component sector in the Eastern Cape >

As part of a larger study of sectors of the South African economy and their interactions with the post-school education and training system, this report focuses on the Eastern Cape and on the Tier 1 firms: the main component suppliers to the automoti...

Vocational education and training for development: A policy in need of a theory? >

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contras...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Reconfiguring the post-schooling sector: A critical review of Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) provision in South Africa >

This paper hopes to provide a backdrop for understanding the nature and context of the 'basic education' subsector of post-schooling in relation to the issues and challenges it faces. The paper thus examines the system of basic education within the l...

An investigation of enabling and constraining factors affecting the supply and demand of specific biodiversity scare skills to the biodiversity sector >

This study is situated within the context of the emerging South African Biodiversity Sector and focuses on the supply of and demand for scarce skilled biodiversity professionals. It does so by investigating the transition a young biodiversity profess...

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...

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...

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...

Shifting occupational boundaries: Considering implications for artisanal skills planning >

The key research question of this project is: How does the boundary work between high-status and intermediate level employees help us to understand the nature and extent of occupational structural change?

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.

Studying the shifting boundaries of artisanal work and occupations: Research guide >

The research guide provides a conceptual frame and research instruments to assist skills and strategic planners in their task from a specific research method and design perspective. Specifically, the guide provides practical guidelines and tools to c...

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 shifting boundaries of artisanal work and occupations >

This project report uses the concept of occupational boundaries as a lens to investigate change to artisanal work and its organisation, the focus question being: Has the work of artisans changed and, if so, how? Through qualitative investigation into...

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...

Work and qualifications futures for artisans and technicians: A research guide >

This study, seeks to understand how artisans and technicians of the future need to be prepared for the labour market, it makes no claims to direct causal relations with regards to either of the relationships described above. The design was informed m...

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...

The state of graduate teacher transition to the labour market >

Education has a critical role to play in the broader economic and social development of communities. Integral in any education projection are teachers that are skilled and are able to offer quality education. Various kinds of both national and intern...

Law professionals: Scarce and Critical Skills Research Project >

The Department of Labour has commissioned a Research Consortium (comprising the Human Sciences Research Council, the Development Policy Research Unit, and the Sociology of Work Unit) to undertake a range of research projects on aspects of the second...

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...

Research colloquium on post-school education and training: Current research on PSET (DHET) and its entities >

The purpose of this report is to summarise the proceedings of the Research colloquium on post-school education and training: Current research on PSET by DHET and related entities. The ultimate goal is the improved state of research on PSET as promulg...

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...

LMIP dictionary on skills supply and demand >

The aim of the study was to compile and develop, in collaboration with the DHET, a dictionary to serve the following purposes: To enhance shared language use by labour market intelligence (LMI) users; To provide a trusted reference point for clarifyi...

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...

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 >

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...

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.

Skills, competencies and capabilities in the innovation system: Reconfiguring the post-school sector >

The overarching purpose of the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership Programme Theme 4 projects is to explore how diverse types of education and training institutions in the emerging post-school terrain are responding to increasingly changing and co...

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...

Understanding the history of artisan training in a macroeconomic environment >

This presentation highlights the following key needs when considering an understanding of the history of artisan training in a macroeconomic environment: 1. Bring historical lens to the training systems and demand schedules (economic growth path/s) w...

Using the Delphi Method to select key indicators for skills planning >

This working paper explores how the Delphi method can be applied to selecting indicators for skills planning. The first part of the paper presents a brief overview of the Delphi method and the underlying theory, including definitions of the method, i...

Analysis of green occupations: The local government sector perspective >

A study was carried to analyse existing and potential green occupations and identify green qualifications and skills necessary for the development of green economy practices. The study was carried out within the context of the role of local governmen...

Analysis of the skills required for green economy: The local government sector perspective >

The project was carried out within the context of the role of local government in the adoption of green economy strategy. The role of the local government in promoting green economy should be both reactive and proactive. The reactive aspect of the ro...