Published by TEDx, Elsie Harmse, CEO of UXi Artisan Development, shares a transformative vision for vocational education in South Africa, emphasising the power of work-integrated training to uplift individuals and communities. By combining theoretical learning with hands-on industry experience, she believes in equipping young people with the skills and confidence to become employable artisans, addressing…
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During the month of August, we celebrate women in South Africa; women who’ve made history and women who are shaping our future. As a male in the artisan world, I see increasingly more female learners break through the stereotype that the world of artisans is for men only. What excites me the most is to…
Today is World Youth Skills Day !! In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day, to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship. One of the main focus areas for World Youth Skills Day is to highlight the importance…
The opportunity exists for a newly created full-time position as an Electrical Occupational Trade Training Position at the Route 21 Training Campus. This is a new position in which the appointed facilitator will be expected to drive the entire Electrician Trades Qualification programme in a new campus. Therefore, the person must be self-disciplined, organized, and…
The opportunity exists for a newly created full-time position as Welding Occupational Trade Training Position at the Route 21 Training Campus. This is a new position in which the appointed facilitator will be expected to drive the entire Welding Trades Qualification programme in a new campus. Therefore, the person must be self-disciplined, organized, and confident…
Youth who are leaving school at the end of the year need to consider the value of not being dependent on an employer for a regular income. The Real State of Entrepreneurship Survey revealed that in 2017 already more than half of the people who run their own businesses in South Africa were youth. Internationally…
Do your plans after leaving school include empowering you with in-demand skills and equipping you with the option of gaining valuable work experience? According to Elsie Harmse, managing director of the Africa Skills Group, the lack of skills among prospective workers is one reason for South Africa’s high unemployment, resulting in the unskilled job seeker having…
Although the Western Cape still has the lowest expanded unemployment rate in the country it increased from 20.7% in February to 27.3%, according to the Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released at the end of September – an increase of 6.7%. According to Elsie Harmse, managing director of the Africa Skills Group the…
Although the Western Cape still has the lowest expanded unemployment rate in the country the number increased over the past eight months from 20.7% in February to the most recent 27.3%, according to the Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) released on 29 September 2020, an increase of 6.7%. According to Ronnelie Niewenhuis, managing…
What are you planning to do after school? Do you have any idea yet of what you will become? An engineer, an accountant, a programmer, a social media manager, a content strategist, a plumber, a bricklayer, an early childhood teacher, a carpenter, maybe an electrician, a hairdresser or an office manager? With the year-end exams…
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