FET College Lecturers: The "Devolving" Link in the South African Skills Development Equation

Autor/in	Akoojee, Salim
Titel	FET College Lecturers: The "Devolving" Link in the South African Skills Development Equation
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 60 (2008) 3, S.297-313 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; Skill Development; Role of Education; Continuing Education; Educational Change; Educational Legislation; Educational Trends; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Bildungsauftrag; Weiterbildung; Bildungsreform; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Bildungsentwicklung; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	National attention on the role of skills development has focused on the role of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in providing intermediate-level education and training necessary to meet the South African national development challenge. In particular, attention has been focused on reorganisation and rationalisation of college structures: through infrastructural development using recapitalisation funds; by curriculum renewal; and by proposing to boost learner enrolment to more than a million learners by 2014. The changes presuppose that college lecturers, as key strategic players, are a well-motivated and an effective component of the college system ready to take on these challenges. This paper considers that this may not necessarily be the case. Some attention has been paid to them in passing in the South African literature on FET colleges, and a report on "staffing challenges" commissioned by the national department provided important information as to their form and composition. Very little consideration has, however, been paid to the implications of the latest legislation on FET colleges. This paper examines the origins and impacts of these latest policy proposals on college lecturers. It examines the legislation in light of the international evidence and proposes that the latest devolution of employment responsibility to governing bodies, although in line with international trends, is less likely to be a positive development. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure and 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10