The Vision Skills for productive citizenship for all !

The Vision Is Underpinned by Six Guiding Principles Lifelong learning: The promotion of equity: Demand-led: Flexibility & decentralisation: Partnership & co-operation: Efficiency & effectiveness:

National Skills Development Strategy – Mission Statement To equip SA with the skills to succeed in the global market and to offer opportunities to individuals and communities for self-advancement to enable them to play a productive role in society.

Five Objectives Identified to Drive the NSDS To develop a culture of high quality lifelong learning To foster skills development in the formal economy for productivity and employability To stimulate and support skills development in small businesses To promote skills development for employability and sustainable livelihoods through social development initiatives To assist new entrants into employment

ISETT Seta’s Learnership Objectives To identify, design, develop and plan for the implementation of Learnerships with a minimum of 1000 learners by march 31st, 2003.

Learnership Actions to Meet Overall Objectives Capacity building of project support teams Adoption of project management for all phases of learnership development Development of a SETA Learnership policy Development of learning design procedures for Learnership implementation Stakeholder identification & analysis

Learnerships 1 Description Learners Start SETA Financed IT Technicians Certificate Lev 4 100 Completed R6.06 Million 50 to start October 2002 R2.00 Million Systems Support Engineer Lev 5 100 Jan 2003 R350K 100 Mar 2003 R1.35Million (Unemployed)

Learnerships 2 Description Learners Start SETA Financed Professional Programming Dip 100 Learners Jan/Feb 2003 R350K Telecommunications Certificate 100 Learners Feb 2003 R300K Telecommunications Diploma Feb 2003

Learnerships 3 Description Learners Start SETA Financed BSc Computer Science 100 learners Feb 2003 R2.5 million BSc Electronics 100 Learners Feb 2003 Higher Diploma Electronics 100 Learners Feb 2003 R2.0 million Comp Science

Learnerships 4 Description Learners Start SETA Financed IT Technicians Certificate Lev 4 40 learners October 2002 R250K Certificate Programming Telkom ANO Technicians 100 Learners Feb 2003 R1.35m

Learnerships 5 Description Learners Start SETA Financed Sales Learnership 100 Learners Feb 2003 R350K DTI Youth Internship Prog. 80 Learners Pilot in progress Funded by DTI Network Technician Diploma