Learnerships

Wondering if you should allow learnerships within your business? Here's why it can be a good idea. 

A learnership offers you workplace experience while also obtaining a qualification. Here are some tips if you would like to do a learnership.

In South Africa’s tough job market, experience is an essential item on any CV. Internships are a great way to get practical work experience that will fill up your CV and teach you how to behave in a real workplace. We've got 4 tips for you to make sure your internship is a success.

Traxtion, Africa’s largest private rail freight company, is embarking on its third year of providing disability learnerships to people from within the communities the company operates from.

Developing a colleague who is appointed as an intern is serious business. This is certainly not an errand-girl or errand-boy to be treated with disdain and humiliated. 

Of all the records South Africa holds, the most unwanted must be the fact that our unemployment rate is now the highest in the world. The official statistics say the unemployment rate, which includes people who have stopped looking for work, rose to 44.4% in the second quarter of 2021. The reality for our youth is even worse than that, with some estimates suggesting as many as three in every four young people are jobless.

Preparing for a learnership interview is much like any other working interview you might experience in your lifetime, with the only difference being the difficulty in questions.

You might have heard the phrase “Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching”. Companies can learn from learners and the learner can learn from the company.

We are finding that there is still too little clarity around the subject of vocational learnerships.  Learnerships are indeed a win-win for all parties involved. 

Africa’s leading data science academy Explore Data Science Academy(EDSA) has ramped up its number of sponsored learnerships to 500 in 2020.

Skills development in South Africa is an ever evolving environment.  At times very frustrating, but so rewarding!

Learnerships are structured programmes combining theory with practical skills within a working environment. 

Learnerships combine learning programmes with on the job learning and training. On the job training is supported by structured or institutional learning. 

To help grow South Africa’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation 

Empowering the youth through on-the-job learning and development is one way of moving South Africa’s young folk to the centre of the country’s economic ecosystem.

With South Africa’s unemployment rate at an all-time high, Learnerships are necessary to help build a competent workforce as well as the key to boosting an organisation’s B-BBEE levels in the process.

Learnerships are developed by the industry for the industry, in consultation with all relevant stakeholders, so the learning programme and qualification of the Learners are relevant to the specific occupation.

Companies that are obliged by law to contribute to the country’s Skills Development Fund (SDF) through paying the mandatory Skills Development Levy will find a number of important benefits if they include learnerships in their annual Workplace Skills Plan (WSP).

Does your business want to support the implementation of learnerships in the country? Find out how you can contribute towards up-skilling the local labour market.

Scams continue to plague the education sector and students have been warned to steer clear of false opportunities.