1. Worker Education: the key to affecting change in people’s lives Thami Skenjana Chairperson Worker Education Task Team

2. The Question 2 How do we improve the Worker Education and Training System? So that we give people with limited resources and opportunity (workers) the requisite skills for them to CREATE A BETTER FUTURE for themselves

3. The Challenge 3 Agreeing on who is a “worker” Working Class Offer Labour / Production Skills Aspire to be working Citizens...Worker A worker is someone who sells (aspires to sell) their labour power & does not own the means of production

4. Current System 4 Passion / Vocation NGOs NPOs Community Builders Individual Campaigners / Champions Advocacy Unions Federations Labour Organisations Worker Education Institutions Some Universities Business Practice Universities Labour Relations Practitioners / Experts Labour Brokers HR Practitioners Workplace Skills FETs Artisan Training Private Providers Technical Skills Development More Adhoc Motivated by Ideology / Social Cause More Formally Structured Productivity Motivated

5. Analysis 5 Key stakeholders struggling to move beyond ideological perspectives Educational Institutions not challenging their own identities / mandates with respect to worker development Limited common ground between management and workers Lack of Comprehensive (Inclusive) International Model for Worker Education Renewed emphasis and effort behind workplace education Track record of Worker Education Institutes in Leadership Development Empowering workers to take ownership of their own development path Fragmentation of training provision Narrow interventions Unsupported multidisciplinary nature of worker education Worker Education Championed by strong, federation endorsed organisations Organised Labour being an active Social Partner Protection of Workers Rights and development enshrined in the Constitution & NSDS StrengthsWeaknesses Threats Opportunities

6. Worker Education Organising Framework 6 Pillar 1: Worker Empowerment Holistic Worker Welfare For the labour movement Community solidarity Citizenship Create a WORKER EDUCATION Strategy & Organising Framework Pillar 2: Vocational Education Worker Productivity Technical Competency SETA Programmes Training for Efficiency Career Advisory RPL Assessment Pillar 3: Management- Worker Education Fair Negotiation Practice Industrial Relations Labour Regulations & Compliance Create neutral advisory channels (? Within CCMA)

7. Intervention – Worker Empowerment 7 Planning & Development of Framework Develop Systems & Standards Extend the Delivery Capacity

8. Intervention – Vocational Education 8 Explore extension of DHET Career Hotline Identify Required Career Services (including RPL) Find Delivery Partners Intervention – Management-Worker Education Explore potential partners / channels for offering advisory services

9. Immediate Next Steps Establish a WORKER EDUCATION Monitoring & Evaluation Committee 9 TERM 5 Years 2014-2016 Composition Union Representation (According to NEDLAC participation ratio) 2 from labour education institutions 1 labour service organisation CEO of SAQA DHET representation 1 Business representative Functions Design & Implement Worker Education Strategic Plan Design & Implement the National Worker Education Programme Provide on-going Monitoring & Evaluation reports of its activities to HRDC

10. THANK YOU for your time & attention 10