WORKPLACE INTEGRATED LEARNING

                         

      COMMISSION 2

• Government plans to achieve work integrated

learning through involvement of business sector to improve skills.

• NIHE,FETs and government needs to produce required skills.

WHAT DOES GOVERNMENT WISH TO ACHIEVE

QUESTION 1

• Describe the INPUTS/OUTPUTS (supply side /push factors/building blocks)that will allow for collaboration between FETs, NIHE, business and government to support work integrated learning for better Human Resources Development coordination?

RESPONSES

• What does each of the stakeholders want to gain?

BUSINESS GOVERNMENT

Enterprise development and growth

Create jobs

Improve productivity Placement &training of students

Increase profit Improved research

Question 3

How can higher education and NSA, through NIHE, in collaboration with FETs, business and government assist with research and ensure efficient work integrated learning and other relevant HRD project and programmes in the province?

RESPONSES• NIHE should conduct research and develop a

model to address the demand from employers• Mentoring by employers• The mentors must be assessed by external

assessors from colleges

Question 4

How can NSA and SETAs assist to ensure that every workplace changes into a training space to enable organizational and individual growth?

• NIHE to do research and come up with a model that will talk to demand and supply of the industry.

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

RESPONSES

• Need to get small companies to take employees

• GDP in MP comes from small companies therefore government needs.

• Need to incentivize companies to train more people

• Establish a pool facilitators

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

Through incentives

SUGGESTIONS

• Alignment of curriculum with the demands of the industry.

• Recruit students according to employers demands

• Scarce skills should influence learning programme.

• Government to enter into MOUs with business and FETs to train on required skills

• Develop a model on how to recruit

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

SUGGESTIONS CONT…

• Change the curriculum to be inline with business demands.

• Identify gaps between FET outputs and industry demands

• Skilling of FET lecturers

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

DATABASES AND FUNDING• Database be developed• NSF to fund the development of database• FET must trace their graduates (Tracer study)• Employees will have a pool of graduates to

choose from• Department of Labour must be a custodian of

the database

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?

Question 5

How can NSA and SETAs ensure, through incentives, that business especially small and medium enterprises would participate into changing the workplace into training spaces?