Enhancing Skills Planning for Economic Growth - CHIETA Updates 2018

1. RESEARCH AND SKILLS PLANNING UPDATE FEBRUARY 2018: REGIONAL SKILLS FORUMS

2. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Outline • Overview: The Development of 2018 Sector Skills Plan (SSP) • WSP/ATR Template • Handbook for Occupations • Skills Development Committee Toolkit • Qualifications Development and WSSA Skills Competition Updates

3. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Overview: The Development of the 2018 SSP

4. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability The Purpose of the Presentation • To reiterate the role of WSP-ATR and the OFO in skills planning and SSP Development • To provide stakeholders with support needed by taking them through the WSP-ATR 2018/2019 template, indicating where changes are building • To provide an overview of the handbook for occupations as a reference tool to support the completion of WSP-ATR • Tools for enhancing and increasing data accuracy and quality of WSP-ATR submissions and to ease the burden on SDFs compiling the information

5. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability How it relates to WSP-ATR • NSDS III requires SETAs to establish a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning, and become an authoritative voice on skills for their sector • Core to these requirements is the OFO because it provides a common language for skills planning • SETAS required to use OFO in their SSP updates since its inception • WSP – ATR important research tools used by CHIETA ( source data information collected – individual employee info from CHIETA companies) • OFO used in WSPs-ATRs to talk about occupations • Detailed analysis of company data for skills planning for the sector now possible because of common language on occupations and skills needs • WSP-ATR→ SSP→ Interventions –closing the cycle of skills planning, demand and supply

6. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Key changes effected to the WSP-ATR Template All items are Compulsory SECTION A: ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS SECTION B: EMPLOYEE PROFILE SECTION C: HARD-TO-FILL-VACANCIES SECTION D: SKILLS GAPS SECTION E: EXPENDITURE ON TRAINING

7. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability WSP-ATR TEMPLATE (System walk-through by CHIETA Service Provider - IT Aware)

8. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Handbook for Occupations (System walk-through by CHIETA Service Provider - IT Aware

9. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Skills Development Committee Toolkit

10. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Background • Skills Development Committees (SDC) capacitation identified by chambers as critical in skills development discussions and planning at organisation/firm level • Adopted across chambers as a priority action • SDC Survey conducted to understand the challenges and capacity needs of SDC

11. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Purpose of the skills development committee toolkit • Improve the functionality of Skills Development Committees at companies, by providing skills planning information (skills development act, skills development levies act, SETAs, SETA NSDS objectives, Sector Skills Plan and Grant Regulations) and clarify training needs, • To provide the role of skills development facilitators and skills development committees in the skills planning, training and development environment.

12. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Skills Development Committee Format • User friendly toolkit available in an electronic and a PDF printable format

13. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Skills Development Committee Overview ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE Provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of the Skills Development Committee ACTS AND LEGISLATION Highlights the Acts and Legislation that drives the Skills Development landscape. You are provided with and overview of each act with a link to the full documents HELPFUL DOCUMENTS Provides an overview of the different structures involved in the skills development landscape REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS Provides explanations and definitions of bodies / structures referred to in the Acts, legislation and structures LANDSCAPE Provides an overview of the different structures involved in the skills development landscape

14. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Contents ACTS AND LEGISLATION • SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ACT • SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LEVIES ACT LANDSCAPE • NATIONAL SKILLS AUTHORITY (NSA) • DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING (DHET) • SECTOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING AUTHORITIES (SETAS)

15. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Toolkit Contents… REGULATIONS, POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS • SETA GRANT REGULATIONS • IPAP II • NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY III • SETA LEARNING PROGRAMMES - • 7-STEPS TO BECOMING AN ARTISAN • SKILLS PROGRAMMES • LEARNERSHIPS • RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING (RPL) • FRAMEWORKS - • OCCUPATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK • NATIONAL QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK • THE BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

16. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability QUALIFICATIONS DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

17. Additional Work on Trades & Development of New Occupations

18. Developing Part Qualifications for the Existing Occupation

19. Restructuring the Gas Trade/Occupation & Additional Work on an Occupation

20. Re-alignment of the Historically -registered Qualifications

21. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability WORLD SKILL SOUTH AFRICA (WSSA) SKILLS COMPETITION

22. CHIETA, The Catalyst for Enhanced Skills, Economic Growth and Employability Thank you

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