Technical college responsiveness: learner destinations and labour market environments in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE EDITOR(S): M.Cosser, S.McGrath, A.Badroodien, B.Maja
KEYWORDS: FURTHER EDUCATION & TRAINING (FET), GRADUATE TRACER STUDY, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, RESPONSIVENESS RESEARCH, SATISFACTION, TECHNICAL COLLEGES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2585
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9248
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9248
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2003
TITLE EDITOR(S): M.Cosser, S.McGrath, A.Badroodien, B.Maja
KEYWORDS: FURTHER EDUCATION & TRAINING (FET), GRADUATE TRACER STUDY, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, RESPONSIVENESS RESEARCH, SATISFACTION, TECHNICAL COLLEGES
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 2585
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9248
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9248
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Abstract
In 2000, the Joint Education Trust commissioned the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) to investigate the responsiveness of technical colleges within the emergent further education and training (FET) landscape in South Africa. The project, entitled 'Investigating "responsiveness": Employer satisfaction and graduate destination surveys in the South Africa technical college sector' made provision for three separate studies: a tracer study of technical college graduates; an employer satisfaction survey of employers of college graduates; and institutional profiles, including socio-economic and local labour markets. This monograph is the product of that project and presents the findings of all three studies. Its multiple perspective suggests the importance of viewing technical college responsiveness through a series of distinct, but related, lenses. Technical College Responsiveness goes beyond a report on the project itself, however, as it explores the broader context of technical and vocational education elsewhere in Africa and abroad. By locating the investigation of technical college responsiveness within a broader framework, the volume demonstrates, within a rapidly globalising economy, the interrelatedness of education and training systems and the constant need for their dialogue. Technical College Responsiveness will be of interest to all who are involved in the Further Education and Training sector, whether as policymakers, practitioners or students.-
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- Employer satisfaction
- Graduate tracer study
- Education, training and development practices
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- A situational analysis of FET institutions in the North West Province
- Education in retrospect: policy and implementation since 1990
- Private further education and training
- The state of the South African further education and training college sector
- A future curriculum mandate for further education and training colleges: recognising intermediate knowledge and skill
- Researching responsiveness
- Building college responsiveness in South Africa
- Local labour environments and FET colleges: three case studies
- The challenges of improving the responsiveness of South African public FET institutions
- Further education and training colleges
- Human resources development and the importance of cross-sectoral state planning in post-apartheid South Africa
- Convergence of public and private provision at the further-higher education interface
- Book review: Brown, Phillip, Green, Andy & Lauder, Hugh. (2001). High skills: globalisation, competitiveness and skill formation. ISBN 0199244189
- Managing the design and development of a data warehouse: a case study of the HSRC's human resources development data warehouse project
- Socio-economic profile of further education & training colleges
- Further education and training institutions and communities at work: case studies of five community college models