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Presentation to the
INSETA CONFERENCE
25 February 2004
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Standards of Effective Practice
Tension: Quantity vs. Level of Skills
Exit Strategies and Job development
A message from the Youth of South Africa
Standards of Effective Practice
• Standards are about developing and documenting
principles of “what works” (w.r.t. programme & learners)
• Answer the question: What are those things that good
programmes do and invest in?
• Example of principles:
– Organisation and management: leadership, staff development,
continuous improvement
– Youth development: adult relationships, responsibility &
leadership, age/stage appropriate (drivers license), services/
opportunities, sense of self & group (beyond life skills)
– Evidence of success: descriptive & outcome data, comparative
measures
Standards of Effective Practice
• Principles should be shared widely & frequently – need
to create space for surfacing learnings
– E.g. a discussion on pregnancy, retention, placement.
• Encourage learning amongst implementers (Setas &
Providers) – communities of learning
• Takes focus beyond qualification (unit standards) and
the process
• Skills training is not necessarily Youth Development
Tension: Quantity vs. Level of Skills
• SA needs a vanguard of black people with high level
skills (Actuaries, CAs, IT professionals, etc)
• Need to keep a balance between focusing on numbers
and the level of skills attained
• Measure of the overall impact of the Skills Strategy must
include an assessment of impact on scarce skills by
programmes
• Will help firms achieve employment equity targets
• Concern on sharing intellectual capital/ loss of people is
unwarranted
• It is not cheap and takes long!!!
Exit Strategies & Job Development
• Exit strategies
– Employment
– Self – employment / entrepreneurship
– Further Education and Training
• Employment has to be the primary goal
• Prepare learners for entrepreneurship as part of the overall
offering of the programme. Avoid introducing the concept
after the core skills training. There are creative ways of
integrating the subject.
• A clear strategy and link between DoE’s FET and HE
platforms and DoL‘s Skills Programme – especially for
those not employed post training (“life long learning”)
Exit Strategies & Job Development
• Target of 70% placement
• How is it going to be achieved? What strategy have is in
place to achieve this?
• Job Development is about providing placement support
by developing capacity for identification of placement
opportunities, introduction of candidate, follow-up and
support to both employer and learner.
• Capacity needs to be developed especially by SETAs
Conclusion
• Shift in mindset:
– from: management + capital = output + labour
– to: management + capital + labour = output
• Young people in South Africa are very keen to be
part of these developments to seize the
opportunities
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