All Blog Posts Tagged 'skills' (104)

The organisation for economic co-operation and development was quoted as saying that “skills are the global currency of the 21st century”. Talent and its management is key to a company’s success and in order for a company to remain successful and competitive, the talent within the company needs to be managed, as well as improved upon, constantly.

For the vast majority of businesses in South Africa the biggest expense is the payroll of the people employed to operate, run and manage the…

NETBALL TO INTRODUCE YOUNG UMPIRES AT SCHOOL LEVEL

In response to the increased interest in Netball and following on the success of the Jamaican Young…

13-2-2013

Mr. Wadongo himself went without eating to fund the start-up costs associated with his business. “All along, I had been skipping two meals a day, so that I [could] construct the lamps,” he says, and construct…

The Services Sector Education and Training Authority (SSETA) congratulates all the Matriculants who have passed their examinations, and continues to encourage those learners who did not succeed to take up the many other opportunities within the post-school Education and Training environment.

The Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga stated that “while a notable improvement in the pass rate has been achieved, the announcement of the 2012 matric results…

EDUCATION STRATEGIES, POLICIES AND GOALS. NOW HOW ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION?

Whilst the Education strategies, policies and goals (see below article below) are all worthy and necessary IMPLEMENTATION is lacking, we cannot afford to wait until 2030.

Immediate steps need to be taken to provide skills and to create…

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FROM SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROVIDERS TO DELIVER SERVICES SETA FUNDED LEARNING PROGRAMMES

The Services Sector for Education and Training Authority (SSETA) is a statutory body established through the Skills Development Act of 1998 to enable its stakeholders to advance skills levels in the sector in accordance to government’s growth initiatives.  All SETAs were recently reviewed and SSETA has been re- licensed to execute…

Would it not be great and more effective if all the engineering and artisan seta’s had a labour department of there own where skills people can register on there database. It would be easier for registered
companies as well to search and find students and skills workers.

When South Africans are unhappy or dissatisfied they don't talk about it, they strike. Protests when they are conducted peacefully and within the boundaries of the law are considered to be legal. But not everything that is legal is necessarily good or right and in my opinion protests certainly top the list of 'so called' lawful practices.

Now the question is not whether these groups have a legitimate reason for feeling angry and…

We started our pro-bono Dream Dynasty programme at Centenary Secondary School, in Durban on Wednesday 25/9/2012.

The Dream Dynasty – Focusing on the Dream in Education



Aims of the Dream Dynasty

1. To build highly-prepared, well-supported, values-based and mentored dream-focused school leavers – who know what they want from life and know how to get it.
2. To create a safe and…

I was watching the news and they did a translation on what Julius Malema was saying when he addressed the the miners.

He was saying that the GOVERNMENT was pigs and that it eats it's own people.

 

I was shocked at how he was allowed and still allowed to say and act in such terrorism against our government and president and also our people.…

The Constitution, Section 29, entrenches the right to education.  Currently section 29 reads as follows:

29 Education

(1) Everyone has the right-

(a) to a basic education, including adult basic education; and

(b) to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.

(2) Everyone has the right to receive education in the official…

Fasset's seminar on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will be held countrywide in July 2012 and will cover the principles and practical application of CSR. The aim of this seminar is to provide guiding principles and benefits of CSR to organizations.



This seminar will also shed light on how organisations can implement their own CSR initiatives and reap the benefits, both now and in the future.…

Some managers may find it difficult to square the feedback from staff with their perception of themselves.

Managers need to take a hard look in the mirror to see themselves as others see them. That's according to a new report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. The report arises out of the CIPD's quarterly employee outlook survey which identifies a significant…

• Why do we do RPL?

Here are some of the reasons why RPL is done:

• To redress the historical disadvantages like exclusion of many people from education and training because of regulations used by institutions, exclusion from certain jobs of certain population groups, etc.
• To validate people's skills and knowledge
• For broader development of individuals
• To facilitate access to jobs and progression…