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Introducing LM-EM: The Linked Macro-Education Model of South Africa >
This is the first issue of the ADRS Skills Planning Series of The Bridge. The aim of the series is to utilise the LM-EM to respond to economic, labour force, and education policy questions that relate to skills planning and HR strategies for the econ...
Linked Macro-Education Model: A tool for strategic decision-making and skills-planning >
This presentation refers to Minister of High Education and Training, Dr Nzimande's call: 'What is needed is knowledge and planning instruments for the system and research- based intelligence for strategic decision-making for the post school system.'
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Skills supply and demand in South Africa: A 10-year forecast (2016-2025) >
This issue of The Bridge summarises a forthcoming ADRS report on skills supply and demand in South Africa. Using the Linked Macro-Education Model of South Africa (LM-EM), the issue answers the key question: what are the likely future trends in South...
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...
This presentation details the key DHET/DMPE study findings in research into the Learning Pathways: Actual student movements as seen in the National Learners' Records Database (NLRD) research project.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
This thesis examines the extent to which the private Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Sector in South Africa is responsive to national development. National development is understood as associated with a range of socio-economic...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Water and wastewater management in South Africa is almost reaching a crisis level and for this reason there is an increasing need for collaboration among different stakeholders. In 2014, the Local Government Sector Education and Training (LGSETA) and...
Water and wastewater management in South Africa is almost reaching a crisis level and for this reason there is an increasing need for collaboration among different stakeholders. In 2014, the Local Government Sector Education and Training (LGSETA) and...
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...
This report concerns the skills profiles that characterise the Financial Services sector and its principal sub-sectors. In particular, it examines the possible causes of slow delivery that stand in the way of additional skills supply to the wide rang...
Credit constraints and the racial gap in post-secondary education in South Africa >
This paper analyses the impact of high school household income and scholastic ability on post-secondary enrolment in South Africa. Using longitudinal data from the Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), we analyse the large racial gaps in the proportion of hi...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Skills supply and demand in South Africa >
This report provides a holistic understanding of the current supply and demand for skills in South Africa and represents one of the first attempts to analyse how the two interact to inform future skills policy to support an inclusive economic growth...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This chapter will explore the extent to which the ambitious goals of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS), are being realised. It does so by examining the findings and trends of six research studies or surveys conducted between 1999-2002,...
CHE response to key findings of the implementation of the NQF Act >
This presentation details the Council on Higher Education's response to key findings of the implementation of the NQF Act.
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...
An Analysis of the South African Tyre Manufacturing Industry’s Skills Demand Profile: 2009-2020 >
This research report has been compiled for the New Tyre Chamber of the MerSETA, in response to its request for the completion of a sector report focusing on future employment and associated skills demands within the South African tyre manufacturing i...
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...
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...
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...
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...
International Labour Organisation: Future of Work Initiative. Theme 1: Work and society >
This paper elaborates on current changes taking place in the world of work and what implications they will have for the relationship between work and society. We draw from extended definitions of what constitutes work and who is a worker, and thus il...
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...
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...
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...
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