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Building social capital: strategies to overcome graduate unemployment in the Western Cape: Dr Andre Kraak SATN conference, Kievits Kroon Country Estate, Pretoria Thursday 3 rd October 2013. andrekraak@vodamail.co.za. STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION. PART 1: DEFINITION OF ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’.

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  1. Building social capital: strategies to overcome graduate unemployment in the Western Cape: Dr Andre KraakSATN conference, KievitsKroon Country Estate, PretoriaThursday 3rd October 2013 andrekraak@vodamail.co.za

  2. STRUCTURE OF PRESENTATION

  3. PART 1:DEFINITION OF ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’

  4. ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’

  5. PART 2:CHEC GDS KEY RESULTS

  6. Key Results of GDS

  7. PART 3:LOOKING AT THE GDS UNEMPLOYMENT RESULTS THROUGH A ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’ LENS

  8. EIGHT SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND FACTORS

  9. 1. Parental education

  10. 2. Private schooling

  11. Location of childhood school

  12. 3. Financing of studies

  13. 4. Unemployment and achievement scores in Grade 12

  14. 5. ‘mature’ versus ‘first-time’ entering’ students

  15. Unemployment among first-time Entrants, by institution

  16. 6. Unemployment and home province

  17. 7. Job search behaviour

  18. 8. Institution, type of qualification, and field of study

  19. Institution and qualification type, Slide 2:

  20. Institution and qualification type, Slide 3:

  21. WHAT TO DO ABOUT GRADUATE UNEMPLOYMENT?

  22. Drilling-down to reveal at-risk students

  23. BUILDING GRADUATE ‘SOCIAL CAPITAL’EXAMPLE ONE: WITS UNIVERSITY

  24. EXAMPLE TWO: NGOs WORKING WITH YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT

  25. THE KEY ELEMENTS OF NGO SUCCESS ARE THE FOLLOWING:

  26. CONCLUSION

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