New Work Readiness Guide for public TVET colleges and students

The Department of Higher Education & Training (DHET) has published Ikusasa Lami (My Future) to support the work readiness of public TVET college students.

The development of the publication was sponsored by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) and authored by myself with great inputs and improvements throughout the process by the DHET Student Development and Support Directorate.

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The publication can be searched, downloaded and embedded in your own website using the following HTML code:

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Please use the above code to embed the publication in your website, rather than downloading it and re-upping it, as the Department can learn a lot about the effectiveness of the publication through the analytics provided by edocr, which hosts the publication. This information will help us publish new editions of the book that have greater impact.

Ikusasa Lami is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. This means it can be published for non-profit purposes provided that attribution is made to the publisher, the Department of Higher Education & Training. To understand more about the license visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ .

This post will be updated with additional information on the publication in the weeks to come.

Skills Handbook Pre-order Edition Now Available

Last week, on the 25 May, the Skills Handbook Pre-order Edition (version 0.1) was published.

This 98 page teaser is a downloadable eBook which is made available to anyone pre-ordering the 554 page Print Edition, available later this year.

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While the Print Edition consists of 249 chapters, of between 1 - 8 pages each, the Pre-order Edition consists of the following six chapters, with a distinctly artisan development focus:

• Artisan Development
• Artisan Development - Funding 
• Artisan Development - History of
• NAMB - National Artisan Moderating Body
• SETA Sector - Grant Regulations, Amended
• SETAs - Finance and Accounting Services SETA - FASSET  

To access the Pre-order Edition, please click here to visit our online shop, and place a pre-order for the Print Edition, at R300 ex VAT (normal price will be R500 ex VAT).

Updates

The Pre-order Edition is updated approximately monthly until the book is printed. Each time it is updated you will be emailed a download link to access the updates.

Advertising

Should you wish to advertise, please click here for more information. On finalisation of your booking, your advert will be placed in the next Pre-order Edition update, and your 12 months of exposure will be counted from the date the book is printed.

What to expect in version 0.2

The next version update is planned for 20 October and will include the following new chapters and updates:

• National Scarce Skills List (2 pages)
• Interview with Brent Wyborn (Business) (4 pages)
• Updates to the Artisan Development chapters based on the recent publication of the Trade Test Regulations and the Draft Trade Test Quality Improvement Strategy 2015
• Updates to the SETA Grant Regulations chapter, based on BUSA's successful legal challenge (now under appeal)

The full list of chapters covered by the Print Edition is available here. If you would like to see other topics prioritised, please comment at the bottom of this page.

Launch of the Skills Handbook Blog

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the new official blog of The Skills Handbook.

This blog is being launched just in time for the ASTD South Africa's 9th International Conference. I will be presenting a Skills Development Update there and also sharing some of the content on this blog over the coming weeks.

This is a list of the topics I will be covering in future posts:

• ASTD Conference reportback - highlights and key new ideas discussed
• The Minister of HET's January and February press briefings and what light they shed on the direction of government strategy
• The Nedbank Occupational Qualifications Case Study - this could be the biggest success story in workplace learning since the year 2000, a very exciting development that will hopefully be the start of a national (and international) trend in workplace learning
• Intellectual Apartheid Fights On - the debate around limiting the QCTO to NQF Level 6 qualifications: how can we still be arguing about the importance of workplace learning on the NQF?
• The QCTO and the HRD Council expand their web presence - good news for workplace learning as communication from both organisations improves
• Key developments expected from DHET by 1 April 2013 - there are several documents, regulations and policy updates expected as the new financial year starts

The 2013/14 Skills Handbook will be available in the following formats:

• The hardcopy edition of the book (available approximately June 2013)
• The eBook edition of the book, on CD-ROM (available approximately May 2013)
• A downloadable PDF version of the book on Scribd  (available approximately May 2013)
• The free online book which will be a regular HTML website view of the book rather than a PDF version. Our hope is that this will encourage more interaction than the PDF edition of the book allows. 
• For those of you who can't wait until the new book is out please contact us about our in-house information sessions for HRD Teams and HR practitioners to update them on all the latest developments.

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