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ISETT SETA. Sector Skills Planning Division: Road-show: March 2006. SSP Division: Achievement Against DoL Targets. Key Activities before March 2006. Challenges and Way Forward. Relevance of Scarce Skills Survey.
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ISETT SETA Sector Skills Planning Division: Road-show: March 2006
Relevance of Scarce Skills Survey • Success indicator 1.2: “Information on critical skills is widely available to learners ..... “ • Success indicator 2.8: “ .... workers assisted to enter and .... complete programmes, including learnerships and apprenticeships, leading to basic entry, intermediate and high level scarce skills.” • Success indicator 4.1: “ .... unemployed people assisted to enter and .... complete programmes, including learnerships and apprenticeships, leading to basic entry, intermediate and high level scarce skills.”
Why focus on Scarce Skills? • International evidence demonstrates that a scarcity of skills tends to: • Lower productivity growth. • Raise costs and inflate wages. • Lower quality of services and products At a national level unemployment and poverty alleviation are addressed through providing strategies to address scarce skills that currently block economic growth and employment creation.
Concepts • Defining Scarce and Critical Skills (p 5-7) • Key Stakeholder Partnerships • Purpose: • Provide the information required for completing Chapter 4 of the Five Year Sector Skills Plan (SSP) as well as Annual Updates to be submitted by 31 August of each year. • Serve as a base for the identification and impact analysis of strategies designed and implemented to address scarce skills.
Thank You Wynand van der Merwe Senior Manager SSP wynand@isett.org.za (011) 207-2604