Examines the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education, training, science, and technology. This book explores the massification, democratisation, and commercialisation of higher education world-wide, and considers the influence of the 'Mode Two' knowledge debate on South African tertiary institutions.
Examines the development of post-apartheid policies in higher education, training, science, and technology. This book explores the massification, demo...
This title reviews curriculum policy, reform and implementation in South African education. This is an edited compilation of the key presentations and discussions that took place between education policy-makers and researchers at the HSRC-sponsored Round Table in September 2000.
This title reviews curriculum policy, reform and implementation in South African education. This is an edited compilation of the key presentations and...
Using theory and social research, this overview of human resources development in South Africa focuses on three institutional subsystems in South African society--the youth labor market, the world of work, and the national system of science and innovation. Arguing for policy implementation, this volume identifies five key determinants--from educational institutions to the absence of internal labor market practices--to study the possibility of creating interlocking social systems and a more effective human resource institution.
Using theory and social research, this overview of human resources development in South Africa focuses on three institutional subsystems in South Afri...
The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and shifting meanings of the word skill within the country.
The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and ...
Debates about good governance are increasingly focused on the coordination failure that occurs when several agencies are required to act in concert with each other, and this monograph looks at just such a case in the South African government's efforts to"joinup"education and work to produce a skilledlabor force."
Debates about good governance are increasingly focused on the coordination failure that occurs when several agencies are required to act in concert wi...
Through 25 chapters authored by some of the leading researchers in the field, Human Resources Development Review 2008 provides an extensive overview of the contextual factors driving human resources development in South Africa. A key theme throughout the volume is the importance of a multi-faceted skills development strategy operating at three levels. The first entails high-skills policies aimed at expanding export-oriented manufacturing production and services provision, particularly in new globally-competitive 'niche' areas. The second level relates to the ongoing need for intermediate...
Through 25 chapters authored by some of the leading researchers in the field, Human Resources Development Review 2008 provides an extensive overview o...
Presents the results of a study of the skill demands of five economic clusters in South Africa: the high-tech sector; the resource-based sector; the labour-intensive sector; the services sector; and public infrastructure - energy and transport.
Presents the results of a study of the skill demands of five economic clusters in South Africa: the high-tech sector; the resource-based sector; the l...
The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college environment is marked by increasingly stark juxtapositions between what needs to be achieved in the post-school education sector and the increasing difficulty of current conditions. The ‘triple challenge’ of poverty, inequality and unemployment weighs heavily on the social, political and economic fabric of the country and expectations are high that the TVET colleges can make a pivotal contribution to counter these challenges. Despite laudable increases in TVET enrolment, the education system needs to work harder...
The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college environment is marked by increasingly stark juxtapositions between what needs to...