The strategy focuses on integrating higher education with training in order to ensure students are equipped for the workplace. The strategy advocates for an established institution of skills and planning so that school leavers and unemployed individuals can gain basic numeracy and literacy skills.
The policy focuses on how ABET needs to be implemented from a provincial to a national level of education in South Africa. The policy focuses on the curriculum, materials needed and assessment for ABET learners and educators. This policy is important as it highlights the need for ABET and how it can be integrated into the formal […]
This article looks at the statistics on illiteracy in South Africa. Drawing from the 1990’s statistics on illiteracy in the country, the article argues that the number of illiterate people who have become literate according to the Department of Education is not the case and that in actual fact the illiteracy numbers have increased. The […]
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is very important in the mining sector. Miners usually have limited formal education and understanding OHS is a problem. This article argues that having ABET in the workplace has increased miners’ awareness of OHS which is beneficial for their own safety. This article is recommended as it looks at how […]