Skills Development

There has been much debate surrounding the 4th industrial revolution and its impact on the workplace.

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.

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. 

South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world (at 55.9%). SA’s working population (labour absorption rate) is also unfortunately on the decline. 

Do you have work experience but lack the qualification to back it up? Recognition of Prior Learning is an excellent way to get your expertise accredited.

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. 

South African skills development is expected to benefit from a cash injection by the German backed enterprise known as the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA).

If you are in the training and development space, you will have heard the terms priority, scarce and critical skills.

Every successful employer knows this. One of the keys to running a successful and profitable business is having the right people, with the right skills in the right jobs.

Heineken South Africa is training 28 learners enrolled in its Packaging Learnership Programme. Through this SETA-accredited learnership, the students will attain an NQF Level 3 packaging qualification upon graduation from the year-long programme.  

The newly launched Limpopo Youth Development Programme is set to change the lives of many young people in that province. 

A high employment rate, quality education, less teenage pregnancy and a place where children’s rights are not violated -- these are some of the dreams young South Africans have for a better country.

John Quincy Adams said that “if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more…you are a leader.”

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.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s YES programme a positive step in the right direction, and well help allow the very necessary transfer of trade skills, improving unemployment and economy.

The Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETA's) have opened their funding window for mandatory and discretionary grants.

The CEO of the Media, Information and Communication Technologies Sector Education and Training Authority (MICT SETA), Oupa Mopaki, has been placed under 'precautionary suspension' since 1 March 2018.

Are you trying to assess the impact of training? The Four Levels of Evaluation model created by Donald Kirkpatrick aims to measure any training intervention.