Skills Development

I went around the country with Nedbank this time last year delivering the BEE leg of the Nedbank Small Business Seminars.  It was a great experience and I got to work with the inimitable Bill Gibson.  I’m not involved in this round but I’m getting a lot of queries about the seminars.  So I’ve decided

This post refers to what the dti has termed "SCARE" skills.  If you don’t believe me, take a look at page 91 of the codes, under priority skills.   Louise was right when she said there are at least 172 different mistakes in the codes.  "Louise, I think we should make that 173, but who’s counting."

Yesterday’s Business Day carried a headline article on Mbeki’s view on the job situation. Right at the end of the article Iraj Abedian suggested that the halving of unemployment by 2014 would depend on how fast South African workers became skilled.  “The economy has moved through a higher level of job creation capacity.  At some

I have met Sarah Babb from the Skills Framework once before and I was very impressed with her insight into skills development.  I think I am actually more impressed with her ability to be recognised as an expert in the features pages of all the important national and weekly news publication. Sarah wrote a column

What’s wrong with this picture.  South Africa is so short of skills that they have to launch a whole new initiative (JIPSA) to address this problem.  Yet 200,000 tertiary-qualified individuals are unemployed.  A FinWeek report from 16 November, 2006 explains this anomaly. A study from UCT’s School of Economics found that 82% of these people

The Reserve Bank published its Labour Market Frontiers report this week.  The Business Day reported today that the report found that "the higher the level of skills, the higher the monthly wages received by a worker".  The report also noted that "the earnings of unskilled and semi-skilled workers remained flat".        The Global Entrepreneurship

Ivor Blumenthal (Services SETA CEO) wrote a scathing response  to this article in the Business Day –Skills training funds missing the target.  Blumenthal argues that the Labour and Finance departments did not discuss the removal of the 1% skills development levy (SDL) for companies whose annual payroll was less the R500k, I have heard that