1. WORKER EDUCATION COMMITTEE
Presentation to HRDC Commission

2. INTRODUCTION
The National Skills Development Strategy 3 identified Worker Education as a critical education & skills development area
The above dictated that a Technical Task Team on Worker Education be established to develop a Framework for Worker Education

3. INTRODUCTION
HRDC Secretariat handover of the WETTT report on 23 September 2015
Debated the role of business in the Worker Education Committee
Agreed the role of SAQA, QCTO and ETDPSETA in the Committee

4. WORKER EDUCATION FRAMEWORK
PILLAR 1
Political Perspective/
Worker empowerment
Worker Education for the labour movement
Worker Education for community solidarity
Citizenship
PILLAR 2
Vocational Education
Education and training in the workplace
Vocational and occupational programmes e.g. SETA programmes
PILLAR 3
Joint Management Worker Education
Joint worker-management education is located in Industrial Relations
Addressed in Labour relations/ worker perspective to be developed
Addressed but requires attention/ critical evaluation & monitoring
Not formerly addressed and requires attention/ accommodation with sole TU input

5. PROGRESS TO DATE
First Meeting November 2015
Second Meeting January 2016
Third meeting February 2016
Strategic Planning Workshop February 2016

6. AGREEMENTS
The Chairperson and the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee should come directly from the structures of the federations.
Appointment of Project Manager & Job Description
Terms of Reference for the Committee
Business representative should be removed from the Committee in line with the motivations presented in the workshop;

7. AGREEMENTS
The PM will be accommodated at DITSELA offices to coordinate the activities of the Committee;
The PM will be managed by and will report to the outgoing Committee Chairperson, comrade Fundi (until further notice), who will be responsible to monitor his (PM’s) performance.
The PM working with the Committee Chairperson will help identify and advise on other sources of funding (Department of Labour, Unemployment Insurance Fund for the unemployed, SETA funding) to reinforce the current stream of funding as part of the funding model discussion;
We have also contemplated a Worker Education Conference to look at Programme Evaluation and Worker Education Funding

8. AGREEMENTS
The PM will also help to track all legislative processes and other labour market policy changes that are like to impact on the work of the Committee
The PM with the Committee Chairperson will facilitate the submission of inputs into the “seta landscape” document which was published by Higher Education for public consultation. The federations will submit to the PM by end of Monday.
A full Committee meeting should be held to consolidate the work of the Strategic Planning Workshop.
More regular meetings to be hosted by the different federations (and funded thru WE Budget)

9. OUTSTANDING TASKS Consolidation of Strategic Planning Workshop Outputs
Consolidation of Funding Strategy/ Model for Worker Education
Appointment of Administrator
Compilation of worker education history
Ongoing collective evaluation of context
Audit of Pillar 1 Programmes and Material
Needs analysis for workers (to identify the needs)
Tasks to be completed in