Oecd Reviews of Vocational Education and Training A Skills beyond School Review of South Africa

""Acknowledgements"" ""Table of contents"" ""Summary: Strengths, challenges and recommendations"" ""Why vocational education and training matters"" ""Strengths of the South African system"" ""Challenges and Recommendations"" ""Prospects for youth -- the challenge for South Africa"" ""Introduction"" ""The role of vocational education and training"" ""The issues: strengths and challenges of the South African system"" ""Note"" ""References"" ""Simplifying vocational pathways"" ""The challenge: The architecture of the system"" ""Recommendation: Simplify the system"" ""Supporting arguments: Simplicity strengthens the system""""Notes"" ""References"" ""Building partnership between vocational training and the economy"" ""The challenge: weak links between the vocational system and the labour market"" ""Recommendation: Build a responsive vocational system through partnership with industry"" ""Supporting arguments: Tools for building partnership with the world of work"" ""Notes"" ""References"" ""Reforming funding arrangements"" ""Challenge: weaknesses in the levy-grant scheme"" ""Recommendation: reform the levy-grant scheme"" ""Supporting arguments: simpler and more efficient administration""""Challenge: reforming the TVET college funding formula"" ""Recommendation: fund TVET colleges to reflect real costs, and encourage completion"" ""Supporting arguments: building an effective formula"" ""Notes"" ""References"" ""Strengthening professional development for vocational teachers and college leaders"" ""Challenge: quality in teaching and college leadership"" ""Recommendation: strengthen the teaching workforce and its leadership"" ""Notes"" ""References"" ""Supporting completion and transition"" ""Challenge: insufficient focus on helping students to complete""""Recommendation: tackle low completion rates"" ""Supporting arguments: tools to improve completion"" ""Notes"" ""References"" Annotation Vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. How can employers and unions be engaged? How can workbased learning be used? How can teachers and trainers be effectively prepared? How should ..