November 2010 Blog Posts (40)

South Africa’s Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ebrahim Ebrahim is to hand over a cheque for R5 million to support the victims of floods in Pakistan.…

We are urgently looking for training material for the following qualifications:

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Skills shortage is a common concern in most of african countries. Politicians are neglecting this problem. Yet social progress depend on the way the system generate competent employees and inventive labourers in different areas and sectors. As John Maynard Keynes said : growth and wealth are a matter of the capacity of producing skilled people in each sector of the economy. In fact, China and India are growing, to a great extent,thanks to the know-how and…

Failed: SA's R8bn education plan

Three-year training programmes were meant to give young adults a new future. Instead, most of them have dropped out

Nov 7, 2010 8:46 AM | By PREGA GOVENDER

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Government has spent more than R8-billion on a new curriculum for school leavers - but only 1194 of 26540 completed the three-year vocational qualification last…

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My view is that in order to address this serious skills shortage, we have to begin to distinguish between skilled and semi- skilled workers. The ideal is to have skilled workers only but i think our situation ( poverty and unemployment) warrents economically active citezens.

The economic and industry sectors can do much better with more semi skilled workers who can earn an income and improve the livelyhoods of many more South Africans. An electrical contracter does not only…

South Africa is committed to becoming a low carbon economy and to reducing our carbon emissions by

34% by 2020. The demand for skilled professionals in the carbon and energy sectors is rising. Predictions around job creation from these industries are very promising. The GreenPeace Ene…

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This letter sent by Project Literacry to clients, donors and friends may be of interest to skills-universe members - quoted in full below.

11 November 2010

Dear Project Literacy customers, donors and friends



You will be reading some coverage regarding our impasse with…

PAKISTAN FLOOD RELIEF DAY 34-71 PART 2

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Paddy staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddies. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Kathleen.

He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the…

Reported by Mandla Khoza from Komatipoort…

PAKISTAN FLOOD RELIEF DAY 38 - 71 PART 1

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