As we all know, the dimensions of this challenge are enormous. Of the 2. Of these 0. The college community therefore, in my view, must expand its horizons and see the world beyond individual institutions and campuses, whilst at the same time not losing sight of building each institution as a centre of excellence. As an integral part of the Department of Higher Education and Training family, the FET college community must understand that our broad goal is to develop the economy in a way that responds to the needs of all South Africans, especially the poor.
That is why it is also important to locate our discussions today against the background of an urgent necessity to contribute towards a new economic growth path for our country. In other words, the transformation of the FET college sector must not only be guided by these key broader commitments and policy documents, but are a critical component in the realisation of a new, more inclusive growth path and our industrial policy.
Within the context of the above, I would like to urge this Summit to also locate its discussion against the background of a new necessity that is now at the centre of some of the global discussions, and a critical component of IPAP 2 — that of greening our economy.
The central question is how do we also build the capacity of FET colleges to build skills for a green economy? For all this to happen, we must widen our scope and see the challenges in the FET sector, no matter how complex, as part of a multifaceted process to revamp and rejuvenate the entire post-school education and training system.
We cannot deal with the challenges in the colleges in isolation from the challenges in the rest of the system. For this reason, the cross-section of stakeholders who are present here today and who have been working exhaustively behind the scenes, have an important role in moulding the differentiated and integrated post-school education and training system our country so desperately needs.
This is indeed a multi-faceted task but which this Summit must also reflect upon. For instance, the FET college sector also has to ask itself how it must compensate for some of the weaknesses in our schooling system. For instance one of my commitments is that of repositioning the FET college sector to provide quality foundation programmes for access to scarce skills programmes both in colleges and universities, with a particular focus on strengthening maths and science foundation programmes.
I would also like this Summit to focus on strengthening the relationship between FET colleges and employers, both in the public and private sectors. The question of facilitating work placement for college students and graduates must be at the heart of our skills development strategies. In this regard the role of the SETAs, and their relationship to the public FET college sector, is a critical issue that must be addressed here as well as in the Skills Summit we are holding next week.
Increasing placement of college students and graduates in workplace will also go a long way not only in improving the quality of college programmes, but also in making FET colleges institutions of choice! The very processes we have undergone since our April roundtable, including the holding of this summit, is part of the very important task of the mobilisation of all stakeholders in building a strong, high-quality FET college sector.
For example we need to further reflect at this Summit of how we improve the participation of employers, communities, students, lecturers and experts in building a strong FET college sector. When we gathered at the round table of key stakeholders in April, we identified the challenges in the FET sector and set in motion a process of defining what needs to be done in the immediate, medium and long term to support FET colleges to function as high quality institutions that can respond to national education and training challenges.
We know that stakeholder participation is one of the key ingredients in the transformation of the FET college sector. As stated above, if the strategies and solutions we wish to adopt are to succeed, both those who are expected to benefit and those who are expected to implement the strategies must be persuaded that these strategies are sound, necessary, and feasible. We are aware of the many difficulties that have been experienced in recent years in the FET college subsystem as a result of a complex and incomplete transition, with multiple and overlapping changes of a profound nature for which many were ill-equipped.
These difficulties have affected the colleges as institutions in different degrees. They include:. Part of this is curriculum transformation to produce college graduates that do not only possess quality technical skills, but also to introduce civic education as a critical component of the curriculum. I would like this summit to particularly reflect on the latter, as part of discussions on curriculum transformation.
The agreement establishes parity in salaries of lecturing staff and office-based lecturers employed in public FET colleges with salaries of educators in public schools. This is an important breakthrough to address the salary disparities among college lecturers and is a significant step towards stabilising the sector. We also have to respond to the challenges of providing resources for both quality improvements and higher enrolment in colleges, and closer alignment with the funding arrangements contained under the skills development levy was required.
FET colleges are pivotal in our mission to address skills shortages and mismatches, as well as helping young and less skilled workers access jobs. We must ensure that further education and training programmes provide the real-world skills needed by public and private sector employers, and support sustainable livelihoods for many who are not employed and are not participating in education and training programmes.
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