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White paper for post-school education and training: Building an expanded, effective and integrated post-school system

Date posted:

2022/11/01

Publication year:

2013

Corporate author/s:

Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET)

Output-type:

briefing or fact sheet

Format:

pdf

The White Paper sets out strategies to improve the capacity of the post-school education and training system to meet South Africa's needs. It outlines policy directions to guide the DHET and the institutions for which it is responsible in order to contribute to building a developmental state with a vibrant democracy and a flourishing economy. Its main policy objectives are: a post-school system that can assist in building a fair, equitable, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa; a single, coordinated post-school education and training system; expanded access, improved quality and increased diversity of provision; a stronger and more cooperative relationship between education and training institutions and the workplace; a post-school education and training system that is responsive to the needs of individual citizens, employers in both public and private sectors, as well as broader societal and developmental objectives.

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