Author: Zukiswa
Published: 2023
This report forms part of the consultancy Comparative skills profiling surveys and assessment of skills recognition opportunities facilitating refugees and asylum seekers’ access to the labour market in South Africa and Zambia. JET Education Services was commissioned by the ILO and the UNHCR to undertake this consultancy, which forms part of the Southern Africa Migration Management (SAMM) project. The SAMM Project is funded by the EU and implemented by the ILO, the IOM, the UNODC and the UNHCR. Its overall objective is to improve migration management in the Southern Africa and Indian Ocean region and to contribute to achieving the 2030 Development Agenda1
Author: Eleanor Hazell
Published: 2024
In 2021, the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association facilitated an evaluation hackathon that engaged diverse stakeholders in co-creation processes to develop practical solutions to address complex problems facing the monitoring and evaluation sector. The event catalysed broad-based ownership and enabled the South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association to coordinate the creative energy, commitment and resources of its members, government and other partners to achieve outcomes that would not be possible to achieve otherwise. The article analyses the co-creation approach adopted for the hackathon across four phases, namely initiation, process design/planning, co-design and development and application/follow-up. A retrospective analysis of the process and results identified eight key elements that enabled or impeded the successful completion of hackathon outputs and their conversion into useful products. These elements are facilitative leadership, purposive stakeholder selection, a well-delimited task, preparation, process facilitation, a valued product, voluntary contributions and further capacity. The lessons learnt provide useful insight for future efforts to generate localised, contextualised responses to evaluation problems.
Keywords: Research paper, Journal
Author: UNESCO
Published: 2022
Publication on youth and changing realities: rethinking post-basic education in sub-Saharan Africa has been released by UNESCO.
Author: Andrew Paterson
Published: 2022
Programme for the Workshop on Accountability and Trust on the 24 October 2022, 13h00-14h30
Author: Keevy, J., Shiohira, K., MAtlala, R., & Molokwane, P.
Published: 2021
by James Keevy, KellyShiohira, Raymond Matlala and Patrick Molokwane. Volume 3 of 'New qualifications and competencies for future-oriented TVET'
Author: Jane Hofmeyr and Zaahedah Vally
Published: 2022
This report on the professionalisation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) lecturers is the result of research undertaken by JET Education Services (JET) in 2021 and 2022 as part of a five-year TVET programme. In 2019, JET was appointed as part of a consortium of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) involved in the five-year TVET programme commissioned by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the National Skills Fund (NSF).
Author: Kelly Shiohira
Published: 2021
Artificial intelligence has produced new teaching and learning solutions that are now undergoing testing in different contexts. In addition to its impact on the education sector, AI is substantially altering labour markets, industrial services, agriculture processes, value chains and the organization of workplaces in particular. Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) contributes to sustainable development by fostering employment, decent work and lifelong learning. However, the effectiveness of a TVET system depends on its links and relevance to the labour market. As one of the major drivers of change, there is a need to better understand the impact of AI on labour markets, and consequently on TVET systems. In certain middle- and higher-income societies, artificial intelligence is already deeply immersed in legislation and governance, policy, state expenditure, the private sector and national economies. In these cases, TVET institutions are presiding over the ‘hollowing out’ of intermediate level skills and the direct integration of AI into education and training. Contrastingly, many TVET institutions have yet to form meaningful or robust responses to technological shifts. Regardless of context, all TVET institutions should develop an understanding of the current and future importance of AI and begin to incorporate its use into their planning. Forward thinking and, where possible, pre-emptive action, will put TVET institutions and their graduates in a position to thrive in the era of AI and contribute positively to economic, social, and individual development.
Author: Rooksana Rajab
Published: 2020
A review of the state of readiness of the post-school education and training sector in South Africa for enhanced data interoperability.
Keywords: Post School Education and Training, PSET CLOUD