The skills cline: higher education and the supply-demand complex in South Africa |
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Authors: | Michael Cosser |
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Institution: | (1) Research Programme on Education, Science and Skills Development, Human Sciences Research Council, Private Bag X41, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates the relationship between Grade 12 learner preferences for study in higher education, student enrolment
in higher education programmes, and student graduations in different programme areas, considering the match between these
supply-side indicators and a forecast of skills demand in South Africa as a first step towards ascertaining the extent to
which the higher education system is meeting the demand for skills in the labour market. While learner preferences are predominantly
for study in the field of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET), student graduations are predominantly in the Humanities.
And since a large proportion of scarce-skills areas are SET-related, this creates a mismatch that has implications for the
economic development of the country. Simultaneously, however, the demand for educators (school teachers and academics) is
even greater: the strongest discrete demand is for educators, followed by that for managers. The paper concludes by urging
more concerted development of teachers and managers. |
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