Transcript High Level Summary of Production of Professionals HRDC

Report back
COMMISSION 1
Sector skills review
Feedback from the commission
• Clarity on the presentation
• Discussion
 Proposed National Skills Council focusing on planning and
shared services
 Consultation
 Way forward – business case
Discussion & Questions
• Will the Council take over this standards setting
responsibility? What should the role of QTCO be then?
• White paper places M&E in NSA - what’s will the
relationship between NSA and New skills council be?
• Moving QA to QCTO? Set up a new structure believing
things will change?
• It takes at least 5 years for a new organisation to mature.
How can we fast track what we have instead of proposing
new structures.
Discussion & Questions
• The system is confusing because there are many bodies consolidate instead of building new structures
• What is the mandate of all structures - align for common
purpose SAQA/QCTO/SETAs
• Silos - who’s looking at the big picture of what’s needed in
the long term?
• Change management-risk and cost/benefit analysis
Feedback
• Have we elevated SETAs to a national priority and are their
skills relevant?
• Is the system failing us?
• Are we not duplicating the system collectively? Look at the
skills research . Why need 21 SETAs in the Western Cape?
Can’t we prioritize?
• Need more Qualitative than Quantitative approach
Feedback
• Understand the context within which the task team was
established
• What is the business case that we need to put forward?
• What is the NDP saying about this report? What to fix and
where do we start?
• Long plan HRD strategy responding to NDP
Conclusions
• Clear policy and a longer plan on where the economy is
going-NDP
• Common vision of where we want to go as a nation
• Do we have the structures to align with that plan?
• Re-look at the skills system at its entirety
• Lessons from the past
Conclusions
• The SETA life span 5 years must be reviewed
• Focus on legislative changes and clustering of SETAs –
what forms the basis of clustering
• What will happen to current foot soldiers
• A single system is not ideal
Conclusions
 Principles & framework for decision making.
• An “integrated skills system” debate, not a “landscape”
review
 Skills System recommendations
• Hybrid model with National skills council, provincial and
local structures with blend of sector, supply chain,
occupational
 Managing change
• Strategic decision for change – the status quo is not
going to address current or future challenges
 Human Resources
• Develop the skills of those employed in the system