Closing South Africa’s high-skilled worker gap: Higher education challenges and pathways
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Experts from many international, regional and national agencies generously share their views, experiences and findings on skills, helping policy-makers among other stakeholders to understand the linkages between education, training and the world of work, and how to integrate skills into national development planning to promote employment and economic growth.
Anticipating and matching skills needs
Anticipating and building skills for the future is essential to a rapidly changing labour market. This applies to changes in the types and levels of skills needed as well as in occupational and technical areas. Effective methods to anticipate future skills needs and avoid potential mismatches include: sustained dialogue between employers and trainers, coordination across government institutions, labour market information systems, employment services and performance reviews of training institutions.
Training quality and relevance
Research papers
Working papers, reports, and other publications from international organizations, academic institutions and bilateral agencies. Research findings to stimulate informed debate on skills, employment and productivity issues.
Unemployment is also persistent due to the progressive erosion of low-skilled jobs to the benefit of highly skilled jobs. This structural transformation in the economy poses a real risk of increased marginalization of low-skilled workers in the labour market. Within that context, this paper focusses on the implications for the development of higher education in response to the growing demand for highly skilled workers.
Low skilled workers
Skills anticipation
Skills re-training
Skills upgrading
Youth
Youth unemployment
Africa
