The post-school sector caters to many South Africans as it either helps individuals improve their educational levels and/or equips them with skills.
Collaborations will help this sector to advance, along with those that benefit from it.
Improving PSET quality and responsiveness to the world of work is at the helm of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and its stakeholders.
This department has a budget that aims to support and equip the youth with learnerships, internships, and other government-funded programmes for employment.
In a statement, DHET Minister Dr. Blade Nzimande said:
We all know that our failure to integrate many people into the labour market threatens social cohesion and in the South Africa context, this remains of particular concern because of the over-representation of black South Africans in the Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) population.
The youth unemployment rate, measuring job-seekers between 15 and 24 years old, has hit a new record high of 66.5%, according to DHET.
The department is concerned over the 3.4 million young South Africans, aged 15-24 who are disengaged from education and work.
It has also been reported that two million of this group of individuals had not completed matric, on the other hand, some of them are working in the informal economy.
Such collaborations are aimed at repositioning the Community Education and Training (CET) sector, which allows individuals to develop basic literacy and problem-solving skills.
According to academic research from the University of Stellenbosch, it is these very individuals that aid in the positive growth of South Africa.
