This virtual Round Table will reflect on how we can better understand skills supply and demand in South Africa. The event will include representatives from the OECD, ILO, Cedefop and University of Warwick, who have been exploring notions of skills supply and demand for many years.
Invitations have been sent to stakeholders regarding a virtual Round Table to reflect on how we can better understand skills supply and demand in South Africa
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) is currently reviewing the framework for its report on Skills Supply and Demand in South Africa. DHET has produced these reports every two years since 2016, the most recent published in March 2020 and available online at www.dhet.gov.za and on the LMI website at https://lmi-research.org.za.
This virtual Round Table will allow stakeholders to reflect on how we can better understand skills supply and demand in South Africa. The event will include representatives from the OECD, ILO, Cedefop and University of Warwick, who have been exploring notions of skills supply and demand for many years. It is hoped that their international experience will contribute to a deeper understanding of how we think about, understand and apply information and insights about skills supply and demand in South Africa. Moreover, international inputs will ensure that the South African framework on skills supply and demand is benchmarked against international practices in skills planning mechanisms while also taking the South African context into account.
Participation in this roundtable will strengthen our notions and reflections on skills supply and demand in South Africa, and contribute to the production of a report that can be used as a valuable and regular resource by government, labour, business, social partners, academics and students.
The Round Table seeks to respond to the following research questions:
• Why do we need to understand skills supply and demand?
• What do we mean by the concepts of skills, skills supply and skills demand?
• How do we understand the notion of skills imbalances?
• How should we research skills supply, skills demand and skills imbalances in South Africa?
• How can both qualitative and quantitative approaches be synergised to obtain a holistic perspective of skills supply and demand in South Africa?
• What indicators can we use to measure skills supply, demand and imbalances in South Africa?
• What data sources can we use to measure skills supply, demand and imbalances in South Africa?
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