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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...
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 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...
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Final research report for MERSETA OEM chamber: Empowering people with disabilities project >
This report is a summary of the research conducted in the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) chamber of the merSETA. The purpose of the research was: 'To identify the best way to recruit, train and deploy people with disabilities (PwD) on MERSETA...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Building labour market intelligence for skills planning: Recommendations from evidence >
This presentation supplies the following recommendations: Institutionalise longitudinal datasets on systemic pathways; Map innovation and skills development networks to promote systemic alignment; Enhance interactive capabilities across the system; A...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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/...
This research guide (Research Instrument 1) introduces a new research framework, design and methodology that can yield evidence that complements and adds to the quantitative data traditionally used for skills planning. Research using this guide will...
This research guide (Research Instrument 2) provides a set of templates for conducting a sectoral overview or background paper that should be used to inform the fieldwork investigating interactive capabilities of post-school education and training or...
This research guide (Research Instrument 7) provides practical guidelines and a set of templates for analysing information on the partnerships and capabilities of universities and TVET colleges to form effective partnerships and learn through interac...
This research guide (Research Instrument 5) provides a practical guide and set of templates for gathering information on the partnerships and capabilities of firms to form effective partnerships and learn through interaction - i.e., their interactive...
This research guide (Research Instrument 6) provides a practical guide and set of templates for gathering information on the partnerships and capabilities of sectoral intermediaries to form effective partnerships and learn through interaction - i.e.,...
This research guide (Research Instrument 4) provides a practical guide and set of templates for gathering information on the partnerships and capabilities of TVET colleges to form effective partnerships and learn through interaction - i.e., their int...
This research guide (Research Instrument 3) provides a practical guide and set of templates for gathering information on the partnerships and capabilities of universities to form effective partnerships and learn through interaction - i.e., their inte...
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...
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...
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...
This presentation details how firms and PSET organisations can work together more effectively through an interactive capabilities approach.
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...
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...
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...
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...
The changing role of public research institutes in South Africa: A report to the NRF >
The research reported on here will contribute one complementary component to a multifaceted research agenda focused on problematising the developmental role of universities and public research institutes in the national system of innovation in South...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This concept paper explores how the transition from education to employment of graduates is measured. It reflects not only on the findings of a number of recent research reports and projects, but also on the methodologies adopted by such research pro...
Adult education: Who accesses it and where do they progress to after? >
This presentation covers an exploratory study to understand the students who participate in adult education and training centres so as to improve Access, Retention and Success and Progression of these students in the new Community Education and Train...
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...
Is post-school education adult education and training? >
This paper starts tracing the different developments and dynamics of the different discourses that have emerged as adult education. It also presents a brief history on the kind of adult education South Africa has, comparing this with the newly emergi...
Mitigating service delivery protest through skills development and employment >
The specific aim of this research is to explore how to mitigate violence associated with service delivery protests through skills development programmes targeted at youth. If local government is to heal relations with young people, could skills devel...
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...
Human capital dynamics in three technology platforms: Nuclear, space and biotechnology >
In South Africa, big science was made part of the reconstituted national innovation system from the very beginning and has become more prominent ever since. It co-existed somewhat uneasily with lower-tech activities in national innovation strategy do...
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...
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