International research emphasises the importance of employer participation in post-school skills development, which usually includes practical components. Integrating the system — as envisaged at the creation of the Department of Higher Education and Training DHET — would improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
Furthermore, PSET must be inclusive, ensuring that individuals have equal opportunities for future success regardless of their financial circumstances and racial or other characteristics.
The future of work is changing and job insecurity is increasing. There is a growing need for flexibility, critical thinking and life-long learning. A sustainable PSET system will have to grapple with these needs. The current one seems ill suited to respond to changes in the world of work. Despite acknowledging many of the problems and creating the DHET, the current system remains deeply flawed.
It is fragmented, financially and socially wasteful, and poorly planned and implemented. Although the DHET is currently reviewing the proposed National Skills Development Plan, many of the goals outlined above are neglected in the draft document. Although the challenges outlined here are general, TVETs are especially problematic.
However, TVETs face a number of challenges, including:. Improving the PSET system is a mammoth task. However, it is becoming more urgent as economic growth stagnates. The future of work requires fewer hard skills for one specific job in favour of a shift towards life-long learning, flexibility and critical thinking.
Forecasting can refer to either an internal or external supply of labour. Werther and Davis in their book Improving Agricultural Extension , state that the human resources audits give a report of the skills, abilities and performance of all employees of an organisation. This knowledge will provide for better training and development policies, valuable Workplace Skills Plans, lowered training costs as training efforts are more focused, and greater productivity due to better employee-job matches.
David, a model is given as a means of estimating internal labour supply for a given unit in an organisation unit: department or sector. It explains how the source of inflow of employees such as internal transfers or promotions and of outflow demotions or retirements etc affect the estimation of employee supply.
This is just a model to give the organisation a rough guideline for forecasting. The company must also beware of external factors that can influence the forecasting such as technological developments, the number of graduates from schools and colleges, net migration of an area and economic forecasts. In January , the company had a workforce of people. From this number, they subtracted the projected outflow of employees which was 15 people due to 10 terminations and 5 promotions.
These skills gaps scarce or critical skills inform the development of priority actions aimed at addressing skills needs in the sector. The methodology uses a combination of both primary and secondary research. If carried out regularly, the surveys help to analyse trends in skills needs and identify potential skills bottlenecks.
The guide provides information to help institutions running an ESS to determine what is necessary at each stage of its development. It provides tips and methodological discussions on the main issues in each phase of survey development, the decisions that have to be made and what the outcome of each phase should be. Effective workforce planning is the foundation for creating workforce strategies that are closely aligned with business needs.
Furthermore, this guide provides sample tools that can facilitate workforce planning at a company level, such as a detailed workforce development project plan and a strategic job gaps worksheet, among others. Skills development has an important role to play in the immediate effort to lessen the impact of COVID while the pandemic is active, in building the resilience of workers and firms, and in preparing for recovery. South African Schools Act - www. South African Council for Educators Act - www.
National Education Policy Act - www. Basic Conditions of Employment Act - www. Skills Development Grant Regulation - www. Public Finance Management Act - www. Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act - www. DHET Policies: www. Umalusi Policies: www. USAF Policies: www. QCTO Policies: www. CHE Policies: www. AgriSETA - www. SAQA Policies: www. The amendments will become effective 6 months following their gazetting i. For organisations subscribing to a particular sector charter, these amendments will not be applicable upon incorporation into that particular sector charter.
BPESA facilitates quarterly skills forums in each region, engaging professional practitioners in discussions about current and future skills challenges and opportunities and in planning for the implementation of strategic skills initiatives. View the calendar for dates, times and venues of the skills forums in each region.
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