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Ms Trudi van W yk Chief Director: Social Inclusion and Access

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Ms Trudi van W yk Chief Director: Social Inclusion and Access

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  1. Colloquium: The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Education, Skills and InnovationSession 2:The role of the PSET sector toward building skills for an innovation-based economy and a decolonised education systemThe Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science and Technology in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Ms Trudi van Wyk Chief Director: Social Inclusion and Access Department of Higher Education and Training

  2. EDUCATION AND TRAINING FORA CHANGING WORLD The 2019 SONA was peppered with references to the impact of SMART technologies on the economy and social compact, the need to develop transferrable skills for the “fourth Industrial Revolution”and a requirement for “a major shake-up in education and training to prepare the country to compete in the digital global economy.” “We will expand our high-tech industry by ensuring that the legal and regulatory framework promotes innovation, scaling up skills development for young people in new technologies, and reducing data costs. Wherever we have gone, young people have continuously raised the issue of the excessive high data costs in South Africa..”

  3. THE FUTURE OF WORK HAS HIT HARDER AND FASTER THAN EXPECTED... JOBS VULNERABLE TO AUTOMATION CHANGE IN NATURE OF A CAREER TECHNOLOGY IS EVERYWHERE 2.5-5 years shelf-life of skills 35% • 47% 77% UK 2.6 billion+ smartphones in the world US China DIVERSE WORKFORCE COMPLETELY NEW JOBS 3 in 4 TSUNAMI OF DATA 65% millennials will make up half of all workers by 2020, and by 2025 they will comprise 75% of the global workforce of today‘s primary school children will work in jobs that don‘t yet exist 9xmore in the last two years EXPLOSION IN CONTINGENT WORK DIVERSITY & GENERATIONAL CHANGE REDUCE COST TO PLAY WITH AI, COGNITIVE COMPUTING, ROBOTICS • 40% US contingent workers by 2020 25% $500,000 $22,000 in 2008 global population from Africa by 2050 today Source: Deloitte

  4. IMPACT FOCUS: National Development Plan Outcomes ALL PEOPLE IN SOUTH AFRICA ARE AND FEEL SAFE DECENT EMPLOYMENT THROUGH INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH SKILLED AND CAPABLE WORKFORCE TO SUPPORT INCLUSIVE GROWTH PATHS VIBRANT, EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES CONTRIBUTING TO FOOD SECURITY QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION A LONG &HEALTHY LIFE FOR ALL AN EFFICIENT, COMPETITIVE AND RESPONSIVE ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK PROTECT AND ENHANCE OUR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSETS AND NATURAL RESOURCES AN EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE AND DEVELOPMENT ORIENTED PUBLIC SERVICE A DIVERSE, SOCIALLY COHESIVE SOCIETY WITH A COMMON NATIONAL IDENTITY SUSTAINABLE HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AND IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE RESPONSIVE, ACCOUNTABLE, EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEM CREATE A BETTER SA, CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER AND SAFER AFRICA IN A BETTER WORLD AN INCLUSIVE AND RESPONSIVE SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM QUALITY CONTENT FOR CITIZENS SKILLED CITIZENS FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 Direct Indirect

  5. advance … Skills Development economic prospects social cohesion 4IR Innovative. integrated SMART technologies opportunities for economic growth, job creation, innovation, improved safety and security, better education and skills transfer

  6. The 4th Industrial Revolution will dramatically change the way we relate to one another, live, work, educate and train These shifts are enabled by disruptive and SMART technologies and changing societies such as:artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, augmented reality, blockchain, theInternet of Things, and automation. These are disrupting and changing all walks of life across the world at unprecedented speed

  7. The role of the PSET sector toward building skills for an innovation-based economy and a decolonised education system These shifts are enabled by disruptive and SMART technologies and changing societies such as:artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, augmented reality, blockchain, theInternet of Things, and automation. These are disrupting and changing all walks of life across the world at unprecedented speed contribute to the 4IR build capacity for functioning in the 4IR impact of the 4IR on PSET

  8. THE JOURNEY SO FAR White Paper on PSET National Plan for PSET National Skills Plan Inter-Branch Committee on 4IR MTT on 4IR

  9. THE JOURNEY SO FAR International Contexts • BRICS Inter Ministerial Committee on Digitisation • UNESCO - educational development for the 4IR • COL - Artificial Intelligence in Education and open learning • WEF Centre for 4IR

  10. THE JOURNEY SO FAR Inter-Departmental Collaboration • Task Teams and Committees on the 4IR of the DST, DTI and DTPS • DSI - SA Centre for the 4IR • DTPS - ‘Digital Skills Strategy for South Africa’ and the iNeSi Initiatives • DSI - SANREN connecting all universities and TVET Colleges • ICASA - licence obligations & eRate

  11. THE JOURNEY SO FAR National Involvement • SATN – collaboration network • MerakaInstitute and MERSETA - Blockchain technology in education and training; • CSIR - technological development in many of the drivers of the 4IR • HRDC - skills for a changing world and what reskilling entails • HSRC – Skills planning and LMI

  12. THE JOURNEY SO FAR The PSET System • In the DHET: • Career Development Stakeholders’ Forum in 2018 “CAREERS IN A CHANGING WORLD” • 2019 Research Colloquium - 4IR: Implications • for PSET • Research programme on LMI includes a research element on 4IR Creating an enabling environment in the PSET system to embrace the 4IR Ensure that PSET curricula are updated and responsive to changing dynamics in the context of 4IR The potential of 4IR to improve pedagogy in PSET institutions, and the need to ensure that pedagogies are “modernised” (digitisation, resources and open learning) Career Construction, Lifelong learning and Career Planning Internationalisation The implications of 4IR for Labour Market And Skills Planning ICT Infrastructure and Connectivity

  13. THE JOURNEY SO FAR The PSET System Creating an enabling environment in the PSET system to embrace the 4IR Ensure that PSET curricula are updated and responsive to changing dynamics in the context of 4IR Career Construction, Lifelong learning and Career Planning The potential of 4IR to improve pedagogy in PSET institutions, and the need to ensure that pedagogies are “modernised” (digitisation, resources and open learning) • In the DHET: • Career Development Stakeholders’ Forum in 2018 “CAREERS IN A CHANGING WORLD” • 2019 Research Colloquium - 4IR: Implications • for PSET • Research programme on LMI includes a research element on 4IR The implications of 4IR for Labour Market And Skills Planning Internationalisation ICT Infrastructure and Connectivity

  14. Well-developed plan for a 4IR form of PSET • More dynamic and responsive curriculum • high premium on capacity building • curriculum renewal • with the mandate to develop students who can think and reinvent themselves within the changing world they will graduate into • Effective 4IR education strategy include in equal measure a deep consideration of the human condition • Leadership needs to be less risk averse • Leveraging online courses/elearning to strengthen residential education • More flexibility and modularity of courses –Blockchain and micro-credentials

  15. Consider the best ways to reaching underserved populations • Major investment in connectivity and technology • Effective partnerships, collaboration, integration, alignment and sharing of resources, experiences and expertise for sustainability • Continuously update skills and teach themselves about new technologies and new industries • Skilling, upskilling and reskilling of the unemployed • Need to understand the impact of 4IR on society as a whole, and its implications for the PSET system • Address risks, privacy and security are other challenges associated with the 4IR

  16. “the complexity of the systems developed to meet the demands of the 4IR necessitate interdisciplinary and collaboration as a precondition for innovation” Professor Sabina Jeschke

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