PROVINCIAL HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY

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MPUMALANGA A Pioneering Spirit

Sisonke Sifundzisa Sive1

PROVINCIAL HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGY

PRESENTATION MADE AT THE PREMIER’S DIALOGUE WITH SETAS AND THE

CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP OF THE NATIOAL SKILLS AUTHORITY

2 – 3 MAY 2013

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OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTATION

• Profile of Mpumalanga Province• Legislative framework plan of the HRDS and progress • What to do to deal with accelerating skills development

in the Province• Who should be targeted for skills development • MEGDP: sectors for economics growth• Progress on growing critical and scarce skills using

bursaries• Plan for trade and artisan development

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PROFILE OF MPUMALANGA PROVINCE

THE SOCIO – ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2011/12 REFLECTS:

• 12% of the population with no schooling• 4% of the population has obtained grades 0-9• 29.9% of the population has obtained grades 10 -11• 0.8% of the population has less than matric• 22% (37.4%) of the population has matric• 7.2% (11.9) of the population has tertiary education• The province has unemployment rate of 30.8%(30.3%)

and was rated the second highest of the nine provinces

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LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK

• The Constitution

• The National Skills Development Strategy III;

• The Provincial Growth and Development Strategy

(PGDS);

• Mpumalanga Economic Growth and Development Path (MEGDP);

• Human Resource Development Strategy for South Africa 2010 -2030

• State of the Province Address (SOPA);

• Trade, Industry and Research;

• WSPs

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KEY PILLARS OF THE HRDS

• Strengthening the Education System

• Aligning Skills and professional requirements with High Education and Training

• Aligning the allocation of financial Aid with the Province’s Skills requirements

• Forming strategic partnerships

• Build a capable public service workforce

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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROVINCIAL HRDS AND P ROGRESS

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Strengthening the education system

TARGETS IN THE HRDS

PROGRESS

ECD Summit Agreements: Establishment of an ECD training Institute for practitioners; Career pathing to stabilise the sector; Capacity development on parenting skills, stimulation and child rearing skills; appropriate infrastructure development developed with private sector; increasing access and coverage. Focus on first 1000 days of a child: nutrition, health and psycho social support. Integrated ECD Plan in place and reporting to EXCO

Aligning school subjects with the skills needed by the economy

DOE and districts planned a campaign to assist schools to streamline and rationalise school subjects. The DOE has planned to ensure that the curriculum for new schools is streamlined and learners from grade8 will be encouraged to take up Maths and Science. Currently learners taking Physical Science are obligated to take Maths and not Maths Literacy. The career exhibition stressed scarce and critical skills needed by the economy.

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Strengthening the education systemTARGETS IN THE

HRDSProgress

Improving performance throughout the education system

Interventions such as the ANA, PAA and the implementation of the STARS

Improving teacher development and training interventions in the province

Bursary schemes target the funding of teachers of Maths, Science, Technology, indigenous languages and foundation phase. The establishment of Ndebele training college next year in collaboration with UJ will assist in this regard.

Improvement of 70% pass rate in subjects such as Maths, Science, Technology, English and Engineering

The establishment of MST Academy will assist in this regard and efforts to encourage learners to take up Maths and not Maths literacy. Establishment of MST directorate in the department. During admission process the DOE will be running advocacy campaigns to encourage grade10 learners to take up maths and physical science as subjects and expose them to other promotion activities.

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Strengthening the education system

TARGETS IN THE HRDS

Progress

Improve access to quality vocational and career guidance

Career exhibitions are held each year in all the districts and every school has a Life Orientation teacher. Officials from the district and head office run exhibitions and career guidance in service delivery institutions. There is an interdepartmental forum that include industry that meets quarterly. There is also a mobile career guidance

Mobilising communities to support schools and make them centres of community life

Interventions to adopt schools help in this regard. The mobilisation to participate in the activities of the schools through participating in the governing body activities help in this regard. Establishment of provincial QLTC structure and such in District and Circuits.

Provide basic infrastructure and introduce measures to deal with crime in schools

234 mud schools have been completed and 20 will be completed in this financial year. Two new boarding schools operational as of 2012. Integrated school safety strategy in place . ECD Infrastructure prioritised

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Aligning skills and professional requirements with higher education and training

TARGETS IN THE HRDS

Progress

Engaging with Higher Education Institutions

Teams made out of representation from departments and the Bursary committee held consultation meetings with 16 HEIs in March/ April 2013 and others will be visited in MAY/JUNE 2013.

Developing entrepreneurial skills

Some work done by DEDET in partnership with private sector

Improving literacy levels

Kha ri gude campaign is making a dent on illiteracy. Establishment of 4 full time centres for ABET programmes and the linking of Public Adult Learning Centres (PALC’s) with FET colleges.

Increasing youth development programmes

MRTT in collaboration with relevant stakeholders is in the process of developing an integrated youth development strategy latest version has been presented to PMC and it is being revised.

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Aligning skills and professional requirements with higher education and training

TARGETS IN THE HRDS

Training in priority subjects Collaboration with ESKOM has led to 116 more students in the province registered for all fields of Engineering including Accounts, Finance and Logistics 2012. 200 have been awarded bursaries in these fields for 2013. The provincial bursary scheme for external clients only offer bursaries in priority subjects eg Maths, Science and foundation phase teachers.

Developing profiles and database for out – of – school youth

Consultation with NYDA on sharing the data base has been and the DOE is in the process of ensuring that the unemployed graduates from this database are prioritised by departments on internship programmes.

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Aligning the allocation of financial aid and the province’s skills requirements

TARGETS IN THE HRDS PROGRESS

Aligning bursary awards to priority skills in the province

The award of bursaries for 2012 and 2013 has prioritised scarce and critical skills. The advert calling for applications of bursaries for 2014 will prioritise the scarce and critical skills

Developing staff/skills retention strategy

The document has been circulated for comments to departments

Determining an enterprise survey of available skills

not yet done

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Forming Strategic Partnerships

TARGETS IN THE HRDS PROGRESS

Form partnerships with industry to expose graduates to the world of work

The members of the HRDS coming from industry will help in this regard and the members of the Career Guidance Forum from industry will help. The envisaged Premier’s dialogue with the CEOs of the SETAs is underway. The existing PSDF will also help.

Establishment of the HRDS Steering committee

Done and strategic planning session held in June 2012 and sub committees formed

Collaboration with DHET and FETC on programme mix

Not done yet

Collaboration with DHET on the establishment of a University

Province participating in the project Steering Committee. Announcement of the seat of the university made. Ndebele College to start next year as Teacher Education faculty in collaboration with NIHE and University of Johannesburg

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Build a capable public service workforce

TARGETS IN THE HRDS Progress

Encourage life – long learning

Internal bursaries offered and some officials bear the cost of own development

Aligning training programmes with critical skills list of the province

Internal bursaries offered skewed towards critical skills and core skills needed by departments

Compulsory training in SMS competencies

This would be assisted by the policy imperative of the DPSA on the CIP and the utilisation of the 1% personnel budget

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CRITICAL AND SCARCE SKILLS PER SECTOR AS INDICATED IN THE HRDS

• Agriculture• Forestry• Construction• Manufacturing• Health• Education• Mining• Wholesale / Retail • Local government

(page 50-55)

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MEGDP: SECTORS FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH

• Agriculture and Forestry value chain• Mining and Mineral beneficiation• Manufacturing• Energy and the Green Economy• Tourism and Cultural industries• ICT• Infrastructure development

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WHAT TO DO TO DEAL WITH ACCELERATING SKILLS

DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROVINCE

Multiple strategies ( all hands on deck)• Conducting an audit of youth in NEET• Focus on all levels of education• Use of all delivery vehicles – SETAs, MRTT, FETCs,

Universities of Technology; Universities, Private FETCs and Private Universities, Private sector in-house training centres

• Recapitalisation and strengthening of technical high schools

• Oversees exchange programmes on skill development• Private sector participation• NGOs/NPOs and CBO participation• Community campaigns

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WHO SHOULD BE TARGETED FOR SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

• The unemployed• Out of school youth• Matric dropouts• The youth in NEET• Women groups and people with disabilities• Community based projects• Semi skilled youth• Unemployed youth previously trained

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CONCLUSION

Developing the skill base for the province and country not an event but if done in collaboration with relevant stakeholders can be achieved

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PROGRESS ON CRITICAL & SCARCE SKILLS

SECTOR NO OF EXTERNAL BURSARIES AWARDED

NO OF INTERNAL BURSARIES AWARDED

TOTAL BURSARIES AWARDED

PLAN FOR 2013/14

DCSSL

Safety and security

08

(02)*10

(44)

18

(46)

TOTAL:60

60

COGTA

Construction/ Basic services

4

(16)

5

(36)

9

(52)

TOTAL:61

61

FINANCE

Finance/Auditing and Accounting/ ICT

0

(27)

20

(32)

20

(59)

Total:79

79

* Carry through from 2011 academic year and earlier

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PROGRESS ON CRITICAL & SCARCE SKILLS

SECTOR NO OF EXTERNAL

BURSARS

NO OF INTERNAL BURSARIES

TOTAL NO OF BURSARIES

PLAN FOR 2013/14

HEALTH 148

(618)

110

(462 )

258

(1080)

TOTAL: 1338

1338

DARDLA Agriculture/

Forestry60

(07)

115

(37)

175

(44)

TOTAL : 219

219

DPWR&T

Mining/Mineral/ Construction/

Energy/ Logistics

61

(76)

90

(219)

161

(295)

TOTAL:456

456

DEDET

Manufacturing/Tourism/Green Economy/ Mining/Energy/ Finance

13

(7)

16

(14)

29

(21)

TOTAL: 50

50

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PROGRESS ON CRITICAL &SCARCE SKILLS

SECTOR N0 OF EXTERNAL BURSARIES AWARDED

NO OF INTERNAL BURSARIES AWARDED

TOTAL BURSARIES AWARDED

PLAN FOR 2013/14

DOE

Foundation for all skills

5

(79)

0

(34)

05

(113)

TOTAL: 118

118

HUMAN STETTLEMENT

Construction/ Energy/ Geotech

0

(0)

0

(29)

0

(29)

TOTAL:29

29

DCSR

Cultural Industries/ ITC

9

(06)

14

(50)

23

(56)

TOTAL:79

79

OTP 44

(0)

14

(51)

14

(51) TOTAL: 65

109

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PLAN FOR TRADE AND ARTISAN DEVELOPMENT BY MRTT 2013/14

TYPE SKILL SKILLS PROGRAMME (DURATION 3-4 MONTHS)

FULL QUALIFICATION/LEARNERSHIP 12 MONTHS

ARTISAN (DURATION 3 – 4 YEARS)

BOILER MAKING 60 30 30

WELDING

FITTING &TURNING ☻

60

30

30

30

30

30

ELECTRICAL 60 30 30

AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

60 30 30

MASONRY 60 30 30

PLUMBING

PLASTERING AND TILING

60

60

30

30

30

30

HOSPITALITY

PROGRAMMES

80 20

20(national certificate in food and beverage)

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BUDGET AND EXPENDITURE FOR 2012/13/14

2012/13 EXPENDITURE 2012/13

2013/14

DEPARTMENT INTERNAL

‘000

EXTERNAL

’000

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL ‘000

INTERNAL

‘000

EXTERNAL

‘000

DOH 3,407 22,000 11,407 3,407 22,000

DCSR 425 575 26 575 425

DCSSL 2,000 68 2,500

DOE 500 5,960 1,185 580 6,000

SOCIAL 850 5,200 0 897 4,035

DEDET 300 800 125 400 840

COGTA 950 550 504 1,000 600

DARDLA 500 1,000 919 525 1,050

FINANCE 550 1,400 73 578 1,470

DPWR&T 2,200 5,000 868 2,323 5,280

HUMAN SETTLEMENT 804 0 878

OTP 500 - 0 500 -

TOTAL 12,986 42,485 15,179 13,734 41,850

55,471 15,179 55,584

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MEDIUM TO LONG TERM PLANS

• Fast track the partnership with major industries and collaborate in providing bursaries to students in the province in critical areas as indicated in the bursary template for 2013

• Work collaboratively with agencies in the continent and overseas agencies to develop prioritised skills

• Fast track partnerships and commitments with major industries for job placement and structured workplace experiential learning

• Focus attention on developing artisans in critical and scarce skills and set clear targets

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ROLE TO BE PLAYED BY FETs, MRTT AND PRIVATE FETs

• Provide learnerships, apprenticeship, RPL and Trade Testing Assessments in collaboration with SETAs, Industry and relevant stakeholders in identified fields

• Provide skills programmes and full qualifications in the relevant trades in collaboration with SETAs

• Provide trade and short time skills to NEET youth in skills required by industry

• Establish trade testing centres and incubation hubs

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PRIORITIES FOR 2013/14

The DOE would continue to champion the implementation of the Provincial HRDS in collaboration with other stakeholder with focus on:

• Monitoring the increase in the number of children accessing ECD centres

• Monitoring the increase in the number of learners registering for subjects needed by the economy i.e. English, Maths, Physical Science, and the four Technology subjects: Mechanical, Civil, Electronic and Engineering Graphics and Design

• Ensure in collaboration with MRTT that there is an increase in the number of MOU signed with relevant industry to facilitate the placement of learners

• Ensure in collaboration with MRTT that there is an increase in the number of artisans produced in 2 – 3 years and thereafter in the trades mentioned on slide 22

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RECOMMENDATIONSIt is recommended that EXCO Lekgotla notes the

following:

• the implementation plan

• that the implementation plan was part of the HRDS approved in November 2011

• progress made on the implementation of the HRDS

• The available budget for bursaries 2013/14 be ringfenced

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Ke a leboga!

Obrigado!

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