Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: assessing the impact of learnerships and apprenticeships under NSDSII: three case study reports
OUTPUT TYPE: Research report- client
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): C.Mummenthey, G.Kruss, A.Wildschut
KEYWORDS: APPRENTICESHIP, LEARNERSHIP ACADEMY MODEL, NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7228
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3452
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3452
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2012
TITLE AUTHOR(S): C.Mummenthey, G.Kruss, A.Wildschut
KEYWORDS: APPRENTICESHIP, LEARNERSHIP ACADEMY MODEL, NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 7228
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/3452
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3452
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Abstract
The case studies analyse the extent to which learnerships and apprenticeships facilitate the development of the skills and capabilities required in the workplace in diverse sectoral contexts. Equipping young people for the workplace, or employability, is both relative and absolute (Brown et al, 2003). An individual may be employable because of their absolute skills, abilities and qualities whether imparted through a university degree, a further education and training qualification, a learnership or apprenticeship qualification - but they may not succeed in obtaining employment because of relative conditions in the economy and labour market at a specific point in time (Simmons, 2009). A successful transition to the workplace is strongly dependent on the structure of the economy and the ways in which the labour market is organised. The context of high unemployment and critical skills shortages in South Africa is a significant determinant of successful outcomes of the learnership and apprenticeship pathway systems, and there are distinct outcomes and levels of success associated with different sectors, particularly in the context of a global recession.-
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- A critical review of the national skills development strategy in South Africa
- Impact assessment of learnerships and apprenticeships
- Learnerships: focusing on the young unemployed
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: developing skills and capabilities through the learnership and apprenticeship pathway systems: synthesis report: assessing the impact of learnerships and apprenticeships under NSDSII
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- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: learnerships and apprenticeships survey 2010: technical report: identifying transitions and trajectories through the learnership and apprenticeship systems
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- International influences on the evolution of South Africa's National Skills Development policy
- Uneven South African private enterprise training: the national skills survey of 2003
- Evaluation of the learnership academy model
- Incoherence in the South African labour market for intermediate skills
- A strong desire for certification
- Tracing learnership results
- Learnerships and skills development in South Africa: a shift to prioritise the young unemployed
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: a technical report on learnership and apprenticeship population databases in South Africa: patterns and shifts in skills formation
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: the NSF as a mechanism to address skills development of the unemployed in South Africa
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: scarce skills information dissemination: a study of the SETAs in South Africa
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: the impact of work experience grants on learner placement: an investigation into the measurement of the effectiveness of work experience grants
- Impact Assessment of National Skills Development Strategy II: measuring impact assessment of skills development on service delivery in government departments: appendices