Skills Development and Employment Equity

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Skills Development and Employment Equity
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General

• General Consensus
• Reporting will include both EE and Skills
  development at the same time

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Challenges our observations

• Age Restriction on l/ships
• Abundance of low-level skills
• Shortage of High level technical skills
• Shortage of management skills
• Funding for high level programmes outside l/ships
• No l/ships for NQF 6/7/8

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Challenges

• No concrete research on skills gaps etc
• Need to look wholistically at education system
• Marginalised youth not included, youth included
  are employed and entrepreneurs
• Women in support functions

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Recommendations

• Need research on skills gaps/shortages
• Company wide
• Economy
• Worldwide
• Companies meet ICT Council guidelines beyond
  compliance Provide incentives
• ICT Institute to be set up Where is the
  process?
• Institute will be demand driven

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Recommendations

• Reps on ICT Council
• Youth
• Women
• People with Disabilities
• Interest group formed to lobby Govt as SDA is
  regulated
• Orgs with job functions not requiring physical
  strength should hire people with disabilities
• Reporting on EE (should be implemented as a
  requirement) NO EXCEPTIONS
• Fly by nights Help from ISE TT

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Targets and Indicators

• Incentivise companies to create skills at global
  level to catalyse economic change Its a global
  competitive market and therefore we need to take
  a global perspectives in terms of skills
  requirement and other attributes
• Partnering Boundary collaboration to promote
  achievement and national
• 10 training 70Experience 20 Mentorship