Developing e-skills for a knowledge based economy
- Learning & Development
- Published on 16 Jul 2012
- Wikus Van der Merwe
With an e-government readiness rating of just 0.237, Africa lags behind the rest of the world considerably. As mentioned in the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2011-2012, "African economies must continue to develop economic environments that are based on productivity enhancements. This means keeping a clear focus on strengthening the institutional, physical and human capital prerequisites for a strong and competitive sector-led development."
Creating the example: Altech's success story
- Learning & Development
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Frew Murdoch
The Challenge
With the current skills shortage in South Africa, businesses have to implement new strategies to develop people from within their own workforce and from the ranks of the unemployed. They have to assess what learning and development needs are required.
Transforming boring learning
- Learning & Development
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Robin Probart
South Africa is faced with many challenges in the teaching, training and education professions today. Much is attributed to poor curriculum design and incompetent teachers/trainers. Part of the problem emanates from the lack of informal learning strategies where learners are not involved, bored, uninterested and constipated by the one-way knowledge information piled onto them by the teacher, trainer or presenter.
How can South Africa cope with the skills shortage?
- Learning & Development
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Frew Murdoch
The issue that many companies are confronted with today is how to handle the skills shortage in South Africa. The following article will consider new ways of coping with the skills shortage through learning and developing people. South Africa is facing a huge skills shortage and has a substantial unemployment problem dating back from the Apartheid era. Human Resources policies offer many solutions to these economic and social problems.
Widening the net
- Learning & Development
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Alwyn Klein
The American Society for Training and Development call it Human Performance Improvement, the International Society of Performance Improvement, call it Human Performance Technology and many other authors have coined other meaningful descriptors. There are formal certifications and even advanced degrees that focus on this. Yet, practically, what does this mean for the learning leader trying to balance budget, quality and measurement of a meaningful organisational learning and development strategy?
