“eliminating skewed participation in the sector a challenge for everyone”
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REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
“Eliminating skewed participation in the sector a challenge for everyone”
Mkhululi MankazanaChief Director: Sector Services
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Young Professional Development Programme
Basis
Skewed enrolments of students in Agriculture
Poor graduate throughput rate of graduates in Agriculture
Questionable capacity of South African Higher Education Institutions to generate the desired human resources needs of the country.
Demand for critical and scarce skills in agriculture
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Drivers for skills demand in the sector
The land reform programme (redistribution of 30% of the Agricultural land)
The AgriBEE (sector transformation charter) The National Medium Term Investment Programme that
advocates for an increase investment in Agriculture to 10% of the GDP
The sector plan calls for an increase in investment in Research, Training and Extension to 3% of the GDP
The Accelerated and Share Growth Initiative of South Africa (AsgiSA) calls for:
• Double the area under irrigation through the establishment of new and rehabilitation of existing ones
• Livestock development (massification)• Biofuels• Land rehabilitation and development of agricultural corridors.
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Known and needed skills in the short term
The extension recovery plan calls for recruitment of 5000 professionals in the next 5 years
It is estimated that the transformation of colleges will need well trained technicians and academics to the tune of 300 professionals in the next 2 years
The Bio Security Programme of DoA and the Agricultural Research Council in general need immediate attention
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The realties The sector employs between 33 000 and 42 000 people
with intermediate to high levels skills
Our institutions of higher learning have produce on average of 2400 graduates from 2000-04 onwards
This represents between 6.1% and 7.7% replacement demand
The question is it adequate? The more significant question are these graduates relevant to the needs of the sector
The answer is that majority are irrelevant particularly for the agriculture public sector
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Present Dilemmas using 2004 scenario
The former Technikons produce more diploma graduate than the colleges of agriculture combined
A total of 2273 were produced in 2004 and only 8.7% and 1.5% were masters and doctorate graduates.
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Diploma First Degree MastersDegree
Doctorates
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Racial breakdown of the 2004 graduates
1552
67 19
764
Africans Coloureds Indians Whites
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Graduation Trends by gender in 2004
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Conventional Universities Universities ofTechnology
Colleges of Agriculture
Females
Males
There is still strong dominance of male graduates although the Universities of Technology have produced more females.
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Racial breakdown of enrolments within the scarce skills categories
1729 27
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BVSC BSC Agric Engineering BSC Viticulture
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Gender breakdown on enrolments within the scarce skills categories
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BVSC BSC AgricEngineering
BSC Viticulture
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Racial breakdown of graduates within scarce skills categories: 2004
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BVSC BSC AgricEngineering
BSC Viticulture
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Gender breakdown of graduates within the scarce skills categories
55
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BVSC BSC Agric Engineering BSC Viticulture
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What are doing?
We have a set of strategies and schemes and these are:- Agricultural Education and Training strategy- Agricultural Research and Development strategy- The Norms and Standards for extension and advisory
services- The Norms and Standards for Agricultural Training Institutes
(Colleges of Agriculture) under development- The External Bursary Scheme- The Internal Bursary Scheme- The Experiential, Internship and Professional Development
Programme Policy and Schemes- The International Training Programme Policy- The International Training strategy
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How prospective learners can benefit
School going learnerUndergraduate
Graduate and Postgraduate Entrepreneur
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Products and Services Products and Services Products and Services
• Career awareness
• A comprehensive external bursary scheme to cover:
- Learners requirements
- Monthly stipend etc
• Experiential Training
• Support if required
• A comprehensive bursary scheme
• Internship support
• Enrolment to the Professional Development Programme to encourage postgraduate arrangement
• The PDP get a higher allowance
• Information on business opportunities
• Enrolment to the Agri Industry Development Programme
• Industry placement and provision of placement allowances
• Currently influencing the SMME strategy to offer products targeting young people
The details will be provided by my colleagues this afternoon.
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