Skills Development & Training II

Venue: Upper East Side Hotel, Cape Town

Date: 2-3 March 2011

Delegates: 109

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Overview

Thirty five award-winning projects from government and civil society presented their socially-innovative models that address skills development challenges in the following sectors:

• Health and Social Development;
• Early Childhood Development;
• Arts & Crafts;
• Mathematics, Science and Technology Education;
• Job creation for Women;
• Income-generation;
• Expanded Public Works and Construction.

South African government practitioners and managers presented overviews of government policy and demonstrated how their programmes are addressing the problem of unemployment. They included:

• Danita Welgemoed & Sandra Fortuin - Western Cape Department of Education;
• Herman Gribble - Department of Transport and Public Works;
• Rosemary Byrnes - Department of Health;
• Brian Forbes - Government Consultant;
• Bronwin Abrahams - Manufacturing, Engineering & Related Services SETA.

 Leading University of Cape Town academics; Prof. Mike Savage, Tony Morphet, and Lucy Holborn from the South African Institute of Race Relations - gave informative presentations on Sector Education Training Authorities and unemployment trends in South Africa.

Listen to Professor Mike Savage's keynote presentation