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Presentation to the INSETA CONFERENCE 25 February 2004 Presentation • • • • 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 Contact details: (011) 651 7000 [email protected]