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Skills strategy an incoherent business

Skills strategy an incoherent business

15 Feb 2013 11:31 - Letters
The article "Business won't buy skills plan" poses a serious challenge to South African business, writes Sean Archer from Rondebosch.

Education and jobs don't add up

29 Jan 2013 15:03 - Enver Motala, Salim Vally,
Market-driven skills policies limit the potential of social development.
The enduring fallacies that plague official skills policies

The enduring fallacies that plague official skills policies

06 Dec 2012 15:20 - Sean Archer: COMMENT
The role of private-sector employers needs far greater recognition in government's thinking.

FET colleges cast the net wider

13 Jan 2012 13:58 - Joseph Sengooba
Prospective students need to know how and why FET colleges increase their chances of employment and self-sustainability.

Making skills acquisition work for everyone

13 Jan 2012 13:45 - Sean Archer
Employers must be recognised as the instigators and funders of this vital task, says Sean Archer.
The World of winemaking

The World of winemaking

17 Nov 2011 10:50 - Thabo Mohlala
If you have an aptitude for maths and engineering you could be a winemaker.
Growth fails to deliver jobs

Growth fails to deliver jobs

07 Oct 2011 00:00 - Lynley Donnelly
A number of SA businesses have to grow by 50% for the 2020 target of five million jobs to be met.

Help at hand: Invo Tech at DUT

25 Aug 2011 13:51 - Victoria John
The Durban University of Technology lends a helping hand to entrepreneurs with bright ideas by launching an "innovation uncubator".
A bridge across the skills gap

A bridge across the skills gap

06 Jun 2011 13:00 - Staff Reporter
One of the biggest gripes of business in the employment-equity and skills debate is the fact that there are not enough properly qualified people.

Logic, wherefore art thou?

26 May 2011 12:32 - Fumani Mthembi
If learners had been trained from the beginning simply to think, many more would drop out of the sites of miseducation we continue to call our school.
Youth skills programme 'optimistic'

Youth skills programme 'optimistic'

09 May 2011 13:34 - Ilham Rawoot
Questions are being asked about the usefulness of a R500-million youth development programme being launched.

Competent delivery key to new skills laws

21 Apr 2011 10:30 - Jackie Carroll
The effectiveness of recent initiatives will depend on the institutions that will implement them, writes Jackie Carroll.

Setas 'have supported Nzimande'

21 Apr 2011 00:00 -
Recently a lot has been said about the Setas, but some of it has served to obfuscate rather than clarify the role of these institutions.
Skills plan puts Setas in hot seat

Skills plan puts Setas in hot seat

25 Feb 2011 10:29 - Fiona Cameron-Brown
But FET colleges remain the most vulnerable sector in the skills development landscape, writes Fiona Cameron-Brown.
Quick fix for training colleges raises alarm

Quick fix for training colleges raises alarm

25 Feb 2011 09:40 - David Macfarlane
Can the further education and training system cope with sudden expansion?
There's skill in a clever plan

There's skill in a clever plan

21 Jan 2011 10:44 - Staff Reporter
Setas welcome a skills development strategy that they say will, at last, work, writes Jim Freeman.
Immigrants can solve skills fix

Immigrants can solve skills fix

22 Nov 2010 15:56 - Lisa Steyn
High economic growth rates will not be possible without reviewing immigration policy, report says.

SA cannot afford another false dawn

05 Nov 2010 11:15 - Robin Landman
Reform in the FET college system must be black-led and display high expertise, writes Robin Landman
Policy delay leaves colleges in lurch

Policy delay leaves colleges in lurch

17 Sep 2010 10:25 - Joy Papier
The lack of a finalised plan to professionalise the FET sector is holding vocational educators back, writes Joy Papier.
Nzimande: âSeason of summits over -- it's time to actâ

Nzimande: “Season of summits over -- it's time to act”

10 Sep 2010 13:51 - David Macfarlane
"I want to declare now the end of the season of summits," said Blade Nzimande in his closing address on Friday to the skills summit in Gauteng.

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