ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING GETTING ON THE BUS

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING GETTING ON THE
BUS
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The aims

• To share information on current Adult Education
  and Training developments
• To reflect on policy developments and their
  implications for the delivery of AET

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Getting on the bus

• In some historical contexts, getting on the bus
  or not was a highly political act.
• Race
• Class
• Gender
• oppression

• Bus boycotts

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• Get on the bus
• Needs
• Collective aspirations
• Diversity
• Same mode, Different destinations

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What type of bus

• Different Conceptions
• Common and shared Purpose
• Different modalities to achieve goal
• Clear roles and responsibilities

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Passengers

• Exclusion
• Choice

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Challenges of the system
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Tasks of the System

• Respond to National Imperatives
• Poverty alleviation
• Skills development
• Unemployment
• Economic participation
• Social cohesion

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Policies
ABET policy ABET Act FET Norms and
Standards Regulations Educators Employment
Act GENFETQA SAQA ACT Skills Development Act

• Purpose and spirit
• Implement the Acts and Policies
• Compliance
• Monitoring Evaluation
• Evidence
• Review
• Systems and mechanisms

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Programmes

• Literacy
• ABET
• FET
• Skills programmes
• Non-formal programmes

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Curriculum Qualifications

• Strengthen improve current delivery
• Specification of content/skills/cognitive demands
• Learning programmes
• Educator manuals
• Educator training
• Review of Curriculum and Qualifications
• Ministerial Committee recommendations
• Review of the qualification
• Review of the facilitator standards
• Review of unit standards

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Funding

• Allocations
• National
• provincial
• Mechanisms
• Grants
• bursaries
• More work
• Per capita expenditure
• Cost of a programme

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CONTEXTUALISATION
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