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Shaping Post-School Education in South Africa

South Africa has made huge gains in ensuring universal enrolment for children at school, and in restructuring and recapitalising the FET college sector. However, some three million young people are not in education, employment or training and the country faces serious challenges in providing its youth with the pathways and support they need to transition successfully into a differentiated system of post-school education and training.

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Thought leaders

The work of HERANA, and of similar initiatives, suggests that it is to the global 'periphery' (in fact, the global 'majority') that we should turn to anticipate the future of higher education in all its frailty and potential.

- Sir Peter Scott

Were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fight divisions, and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

- Denis-Constant Martin

We have embarked on bold scenario exercises and, over the past two years, forward-looking strategies to address the challenges of development. Courage is needed to take decisions on which strategies to follow and which to jettison.

- Jan Hofmeyr

The potential of 2.8 million South African NEETs aged 18-24 to cause social disruption has been widely reported. The 2009 crime statistics reveal the average house robber's age was between 19 and 25 of whom 90% had no matric or were unemployed.

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Were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fight divisions, and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

- Denis-Constant Martin

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