Skills Development and Employment Equity

1. Skills Development and Employment Equity

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Targets and Indicators… • Incentivise companies to create skills at global level to catalyse economic change – It’s 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 70%Experience 20% Mentorship