Tribute to Professor Peliwe Lolwana
The WITS REAL Centre Mourns the Passing of Founding Director Professor Peliwe Lolwana.
Ensuring the right skills to navigate the energy transition
The South African National Energy Association (SANEA) will launch its South African Energy Skills Roadmap on 27 January 2023.
How to address the skills shortages plaguing SA’s economy
Education can’t make up for inadequacies in other policies that continue to cause mass unemployment.
SA's skills problem cannot be fixed outside of the economy
It must be part of the messy process of structural change.
Covid-19 has worsened SA's system of developing the skills of young people
The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa's skills training regime.
Clean careers and greener pastures
The green economy could save South Africa in more ways than one – cleaning up the environment will contribute to the economy, too.
Why caution is called for when analysing South Africa’s matric results
The Conversation Africa’s education editor Natasha Joseph asked Associate Professor Elizabeth Walton to explain the results.
Is education the answer to inequality in SA?
Stephanie Allais, Yael Shalem and Adam Cooper tack the question "Is education the answer to inequality in SA?"Read article
Title: Looking beyond the Grade 9 Certificate debate: The Three Streams
“The proposed Grade 9 certificate, with the associated three – academic, technical vocational and technical – streams, will not solve problems of young people dropping out and not being able to access the labour market. But it will create additional resource pressures on the system, first to produce an exam and certificate, and second by duplicating what the TVET colleges are already struggling to do.” [Read article]