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Many skills-universe members will be able to relate to the content and conclusions of this book. As trainers and educators, and facilitators of workplace learning it will be clear that everyone comes to the learning experience from a different background. Not only in ability but in all the daily life obstacles and advantages. A recent ILO publication pointed out that women daily spend an additional few hours in domestic tasks compared to men, so for working women that is less time to read and prepare projects such as portfolios of evidence.

Broadband College of Technology, which provides services to individual candidates and Corporate Entities and can provide training on-site at the Corporate Site or at one of our three Campuses located nationally, Central Office Park in Midrand, (Gauteng), Tokai in Cape Town, (Western Cape), Umbilo in Durban (Kwa-Zulu Natal).

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Broadband College of Technology is a wholly black owned accredited institution. Broadband service multiple sectors within South Africa, training and up skilling candidates.

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Basson, Cristianson, Dekker, Garbers, Le Roux and Strydom (2009) – in Essential Labour Law: Fifth Edition 2009 – state that an unfair labour practice is defined in section 186(2) of the Labour Relations Act as:

“any unfair act or omission that arises between an employer and an employee involving –

(a) Unfair conduct by the employer relating to the promotion, demotion, probation (excluding disputes about dismissal for a reason relating to probation) or training of an employee or relating to the provision of benefits to an employee;

For a dismissal to be valid, it needs to be both procedurally and substantively fair. (To read more about what “substantive fairness” is read our article entitled What Is Considered To Be ‘Fair’ in a Disciplinary Hearing?) Temporary Employment Services (TES) have been in the news recently with regard to who their actual employer is: the TES or the TES client. The answer to this question is extremely relevant in dismissal cases.

I assist many distraught private institutions whose applications for accreditation with the Council on Higher Education have not been approved, and assist them to prepare Representations on the criteria they have not met. Here are some key points on the CHE accreditation requirements.

Higher education will continue to be placed at the centre of government’s transformation agenda, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Wednesday.

“The student movement has correctly put the issue of higher education at the centre of our transformation agenda. We cannot hope to grow and develop without the skills and intellectual capabilities that our universities and technical training colleges produce,” said Minister Gigaba in Parliament.

On 14 January 2016 President Jacob Zuma established a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the feasibility of making higher education and training fee-free in South Africa.

The Commission was chaired by Justice Arthur Heher, assisted by Adv. Gregory Ally and Ms Leah Thembisile Khumalo. The Commission was expected to complete its work within the period of 18 months. The Commission could not finish its work within the 18 months period, which warranted that the President extend its term until 30 June 2017.