Salim Akoojee

Salim Akoojee
University of the Witwatersrand | wits

PhD

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Introduction
Salim Akoojee is a researcher in TVET policy and implementation. focussing essentially on South Africa and the Southern African region
Additional affiliations
September 2014 - August 2015
University of the Witwatersrand
Position
  • Senior Researcher
October 2014 - July 2015
National council of innovation - Dept of Science and Technology
Position
  • Senior Researcher
March 2014 - August 2014
Education
July 2004 - August 2008
University of the Witwatersrand
Field of study
  • Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

Publications

Publications (35)
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Since the 1990s, there has been a growing sense from both national policymakers and international agencies of the importance of private Technical and Vocational Education and Training and skills provision in all regions. This pri-VET sector both through traditional apprenticeship forms and more formal sector oriented approaches have become an essen...
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This paper explores the extent to which latest developments in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training System in South Africa respond to key principles espoused for a developmental, democratic and inclusionary ideal. The White Paper for post school education and training (DHET, 2013) approved by Cabinet in November, 2013 is referred to...
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TVET has been moving up the agenda internationally as in many national contexts. In responding to the myriad of development challenges, South Africa has not been short in developing strategies to respond. This short policy brief examines the nature of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)1 policy and practice in South Africa and it...
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Boundaries defining and shaping the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET): Systems: Socio-culturally different VET systems have evolved along conceptual lines. The comparison of different skill formation systems and governance of VET systems are on the one hand of reflexive and on the other hand of practical importance in the context of...
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This paper explores the potential and challenges of the South African TVET policy and implementation context. Locating these developments within the international discourse of skills development, it proposes a real, rather than imagined, paradigm shift identified in the UNDPs sustainable human development framework. it provides an important critiqu...
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Discussions around the increase in number and improved quality of artisans have been widely supported. There is, however, a need for the notion of artisan is to be interrogated. This compelling study does this by exploring two focus trades in the manufacturing sector in South Africa and evaluating the changes to artisan identity and status. By ex...
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When an entity's profitability is threatened, skills development initiatives are subjected to stress. This is not unusual in unusual times. In trying economic times, the firm-level skills development initiatives take second place as a result of the austerity measures either in place already or in preparation for its anticipated effects. But what ha...
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Skills development is critical to South Africa’s development. It has been argued that South Africa’s key twin post-apartheid challenges, poverty and unemployment (RSA (Republic of South Africa) (2008) Skills development amendment act. Government Printer, Pretoria, 2008; ANC Election manifesto: 2009. African National Congress. Available at http:// u...
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Skills development is critical to South Africa's development. It has been argued that South Africa's twin post-Apartheid challenges, poverty and unemployment requires a level of skills development not undertaken before (0300 and 0045). The creation of a separate ministry, the department of higher education and training (DHET), which has incorporate...
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When an entity's profitability is threatened, skills development initiatives are subjected to stress. This is not unusual in unusual times. In trying economic times, the firm-level skills development initiatives take second place as a result of the austerity measures either in place already or in preparation for its anticipated effects. But what ha...
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Access to higher education is a key challenge of the 21st century state. The link between higher education and personal and socio-economic development has intensified the need for ensuring that greater numbers of citizens have expanded access to and have been provided with quality higher education. The article seeks to explore how initiatives for i...
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In trying economic times, firm-level skills development initiatives take second place as a result of the austerity measures in place or as their anticipated impacts become real (see for instance TUC, 2009). But what happens to national development imperatives in these times? This paper explores the impact of the 2008 global economic financial crisi...
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The skills development imperatives with which the country is charged requires the creative synergy of both the public and private post-school sectors to respond to national development imperatives. This paper explores the nature, form and context of the current private Vocational Education and Training (referred to as the Further Education and Trai...
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ICT skills are critical to the success of enhancing national development in a globalised era (see World Bank 2006). Rudimentary intermediate-level ICT skills necessary to function optimally in basic computer-related environments are crucial to national competitiveness in a developing context. The supply of these skills provided predominantly by pri...
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Written in the twilight of the Mbeki Presidency, this paper considers the role that skills development has in the sustainability of the South African political–economic project. It explores some of the disarticulations of public policy and argues that these both undermine public sector delivery and open up opportunities for private provision to be,...
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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...
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This paper considers the rising trend of introducing marketing practices into public education through the lens of South African further education and training colleges. It provides an review of the international literature on 'for-profit' and 'non-profit' marketing of products and services. It examines some of the key aspects that need to be consi...
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Incl. bibl., abstract Higher education transformation in South Africa requires a synergy of creative strategies to engage issues of redress. Access to higher education remains one mechanism for achieving this in South African higher education. While there is clearly a need to enable access by improving student success (access with success), as oppo...
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South African further education and training (FET) colleges have been enjoined to become more responsive to their external environment, in keeping with international trends in public vocational education and training (VET) reform. One mechanism for achieving this goal is to market colleges and communicate more effectively to future students, future...
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We argue a case for a 'revisioning' of the education policy-implementation nexus in the South African higher education sector. It is proposed that the well-meaning idealism expressed in policy pronouncements is necessarily subject to a host of mediations, national and international, which have a mutative effect on the original intent.This understan...
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In July 2005, President Mbeki announced the launch of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (AsgiSA), a new development strategy designed to help the South African state meet the ANC's 2004 election pledges, namely:•halve unemployment;•halve poverty;•accelerate employment equity; and•improve broad-based black economic empowe...
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Public and private provision of vocational education and training (or Further Education and Training in the South African usage) exist in a relationship with each other but are rarely considered together. An analysis is provided of recent quantitative evidence on both sectors in South Africa in order to advance the case for further policy and resea...
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Both the South African government and the private sector have recognized the invaluable role that information and communication technology (ICT) plays in national economic development, and this study provides a detailed analysis of that link. Through an examination of South African education and select training providers, it looks at the current su...
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Incl. abstract, bib. This paper explores the role that vocational education and training (VET) can play in Southern African responses to major socio-economic challenges. It argues that this role will be most pronounced if it is articulated within a broader educational and economic vision that is shared by a range of stakeholders in society and supp...
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Incl. bibl., abstract. This article reviews the effects of globalization on South Africa a decade after the transition to a post-apartheid system. It brings together some of the recent literature ofthe performance of the economy and concomitant changes in education. It shows the pervasive force of globalization on South African education and traini...

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