Reforms to skills training could repeat the mistakes of the past 30 years.
- Faculty member, Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand
Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa’s skills training regime.
In South Africa, as in many countries, the release of senior secondary school exam results, referred to locally as “the Matric”, causes a media furore every year. At 18-years-old, students either pass…
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