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


Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2012

Corporate author/s:

Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC); Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)

Person/s author/s:

Roodt, Joan; Haupt, Genevieve; Kruss, Glenda; Visser, Mariette; Wildschut, Angelique; Van Rensburg, Dean Janse

Output-type:

research report

Format:

pdf

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 the pathways approach is a focus on the institutional and structural arrangements in education, the labour market, the production system and other social and economic institutions that facilitate transition. Learnership and apprenticeship qualifications rely on complex institutional and structural arrangements, a tripartite agreement between a SETA, training provider, and firm, to provide the theoretical and workplace experiential components. The research investigates the extent to which these two pathway systems develop the right numbers, levels and kinds of basic, intermediate and high-level skills and capabilities required by firms across diverse sectors. The three main research questions are: What is the scale and kind of skills the learnership and apprenticeship pathway systems produce? What are the different learnership and apprenticeship trajectories in the transition to employment? To what extent do the pathway systems build the kinds of skills and capabilities that equip young people for the workplace and enhance the transition to employment?

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