SAID Meeting Jan 2011 Keith Presentation

2. AIMS and
OBJECTIVES

4. This is a picture without heroes and villains
but a classic case where
circumstance
has created
unintended consequences.

5. Education Statistics in South Africa 2009 - Published by the Department of Basic Education November 2010

6. Private Higher Education Institutions
Registered 84
Provisionally Registered 25
Provisional Registration Extended 3
Registration Cancelled 61
Total active 112
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - REGISTER OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS - 15 OCTOBER 2010

7. 25% SBA
Adjusted Pass Rate %
50% + 126,371 23.50% 63,186 11.8
40-49% 146,224 27.20% 92,430 17.2
30-39% 91,918 17.10% 116,979 21.8
Passed 364,513 67.80% 272,595 50.8
Failed Less than 30% 173,030 32.20% 264,948 49.2
Total Wrote 537,543 537,543
Qualify for Tertiary Education
Most countries 50% is pass, some as high as 60%
4%

8. FET
4.5% Completed the 3 year qualification
90.2% Dropout from year 1 to start of year 3
1 million students in FET by 2014
240% Increase in capacity – 118 FET colleges

9. FIRST YEAR UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS VS PLACES AVAILABLE 2011
University Applications Available places Shortfall
University of Johannesburg 63,400 13,000 -50,400
University of KwaZula-Natal ** 59,800 40,000 -19,800
Wits University 32,000 5,500 -26,500
University of Pretoria 34,000 13,000 -21,000
University of CapeTown 18,000 4,000 -14,000
University of the Free State 12,000 4,500 -7,500
Stellenbosch University 11,000 4,700 -6,300
0
TOTAL 230,200 84,700 -145,500
Source: The Times, January 12 2011
** Available places for all years

10. Students saying ‘there are no more places left
in my chosen field of study, so I am looking at
whatever is still open, I must get in’
40% Dropout in Year 1

11. As for the 76 000 learners who passed the NSC and who risk
missing out on the learning opportunities available,
that is a real South African dilemma.
“It's not something we
[The Department of Higher Education and Training]
alone can answer,"
departmental spokesperson Moloantoa Molaba
told the Mail & Guardian.

12. Estimated 2.8-million of the 6.8 million
youth aged 18 to 24 are
"not in employment, education or training"
(NEET).
41%
60% of people in SA over the age of 20
have not completed Secondary School
18.3 Million people

13. Job Search Behaviour
Results showed that of those who were looking for work
• 62% had qualifications lower than matric
• 46% had some secondary education
• 5.2% had completed primary
• 8,6% had some primary education
• 2,2% had no education.
•According to the wide definition of unemployment which includes
discouraged workseekers, the number of unemployed people grew to
6 149 000 in 2010 – Official Unemployment Rate is 32.4%

14. NATIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY III (NSDS 3)
Goal 1: Establishing a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning
Goal 2: Increasing access to occupationally-directed programmes, both intermediate level as well as
higher level professional qualifications
Goal 3: Promoting the growth of a public FET college system that is responsive to sector, local, regional
and national skills needs and priorities
Goal 4: Addressing the low level of youth and adult language and numeracy skills to enable additional
training
Goal 5: Encouraging better use of workplace-based skills development
Goal 6: Encouraging and supporting cooperatives, small enterprises, worker-initiated, NGO and
community training initiatives.
Goal 7: Increasing public sector capacity for improved service delivery and supporting the building of a
developmental state
Goal 8: Building career and vocational guidance

15. SETAs - identify skills requirements for their sectors
SETAs - identify and implement projects
FETs - provide this training
• Encouraging and supporting worker-led, NGO- and
community (Co-operatives) training initiatives
Concern that private sector left out of process?
Implementing the NSDS III is a collective responsibility of all
stakeholders and partners in skills development. We must remember the
government’s slogan that TOGETHER, WE CAN DO MORE

16. ICT AND DEVELOPMENT
BASIC EDUCATION
POST BASIC EDUCATION
FET
HIGHER EDUCATION
ECD
ABET
COMMUNICATION
HEALTH
MOBILE & MOBILE APPLICATION
CONNECTIVITY
INFRASTRUCTURE
GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT & SUPPLY
RESEARCH
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
CSI & OUTREACH

17. We all know and understand the magnitude of the challenges
Although our shared final objective is the same
Our separate visions of the future differ widely
Individually when we approach projects and
initiatives we do so from our own base of knowledge
and experience and often have to create additional
internal structures to handle those aspects that we
are unsure of and have no expertise in.

18. My question to you today is
Why would we do that ?

19. • Well we know the size of the challenge is so massive that NO
ONE COMPANY OR ORGANISATION can solve it by itself
• Is it because nobody else cares about these challenges ?
• Is it because we believe that all the clever people are only those
that are working in our companies or our organisations ?
• Is it because we are all trying to protect our business models or
our unique products or our own research findings ?

20. ‘a collective responsibility of all stakeholders and partners’
And that is why we are here today

21. ALLIANCE
An alliance is an agreement or friendship between two or
more parties, made in order to advance common goals and
to secure common interests

22. SAID - THE AIM
The Alliance responds to the need and demand
for an inclusive forum and platform for cross-
sectoral dialogue on the use of ICT for
enhancing the achievement of agreed
development goals.
goals

23. THE FUNCTION
• Bring together key organisations and players involved in ICT for
development (ICT4D), in the form of a Multi Stakeholder Network
to enhance their collaboration and effectiveness for achieving
agreed development goals.
• Provide an essential link between the private sector and
Government agencies in the form of “Public-Private Dialogue and
Partnerships
• To provide a light-weight framework for developing and
implementing suitable rules and modes of engagement of players
in the SAID process and for identifying and implementing specific
and initiated flagship initiatives, advocacy initiatives and other
stakeholder activities and initiatives

24. THE FUNCTION
• Mainstream SAID’s activities and initiatives into on-going
ICT4D initiatives by liaising with stakeholders on behalf of all
members
• Identify and implement Africa specific initiatives (including flagship
initiatives) in the priority areas of Education, Health, Governance
and Entrepreneurship, including the cross cutting themes of
Gender Equality, Communication and Rural Development
• Foster community and government support for identified
initiative deployments in support of regional economic and social
development
• Facilitate, encourage and foster multi stakeholder co-operation,
collaboration and innovation

29. BOLD NEW DIRECTION
• Encourage you all to have your say in formulating this Alliance
• Use the opportunity to network with like-minded people
• Actively participate in the breakaway sessions

30. BOLD NEW DIRECTION TODAY
Use today as the first step on a path of discovery,
co-operation, integration and innovation that is capable
of moving education and development in South Africa in
a positive new direction

31. Keith Maree
kmaree@email.com
082 894 4675
www.campusnet.co.za