Based on the information obtained from the Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA):
World Skills Summit Trip to Brazil
The Fibre Processing and Manufacturing Sector Education and Training Authority (FP&M SETA), used the opportunity to benchmark different Skills Development models used in other countries, and how to best implement and monitor the implementation of learning programmes across industries. It was also important to discuss and learn how Skills Development initiatives are funded in other countries, and the involvement of Government, the private sector and Non-Governmental Organisations, as partners.
In view of the above, the FP&M SETA has since facilitated discussions between industry sectors and TVET colleges, aimed at building a working relationship between colleges and industry. This promotes much needed skills development for the economy.
International Leadership Development Programme (ILDP) Trip to the USA
The explicit objectives of the programme as established by the FP&M SETA are as detailed below:
The total number of beneficiaries was 26 and created opportunities for:
Some of the successes or highlights include:
Local (SA) Content
The ILDP programme was designed to encourage a high level of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship. A combination of a real-world perspective on current local and global challenges with lots of inspiration to ensure participants push past obvious barriers and constraints into the exceptional. Particular attention was paid to entrepreneurial manufacturing and marketing opportunities and to assessing the viability of an innovation or new venture of the student's choice. The Advanced Entrepreneurship module was designed to get them to focus their thinking. All modules for the FP&M SETA ILDP were customised and aligned with NQF level expectations.
International (USA) Content
It was decided to adopt a systems engineering approach to the manufacturing innovation part of the International Leadership Development Programme (ILDP). The sub-sectors of the FP&MSETA are economically stressed due to market inefficiencies and a lack of competitiveness in their manufacturing and operational methods versus global competition. The goal of the MIT leg was to expose them to best thinkers and leading innovators in a systems engineering approach to manufacturing. Examining how they transform an innovative idea in the manufacturing space is pivotal to this particular programme.
Success from the Integrated Assignments
(Return on Investment: Action-Learning Integrated Assignment Presentation and Examination)
Women’s Forum Global Meeting in France
“Our future is notoriously unpredictable” underpinned the conference message and was central to the responses, ideas and discussions for the duration of the conference. The overarching theme of energising the world is hugely valuable and relevant for the work of the FP&M SETA. It is important to link work with the possibility of "energising our sub sectors" to better tackle the intractable challenges of sustainable development that lies ahead for young people, women and society at large. More importantly, the conference highlighted the need for strategic engagement and collaboration with sub sectors and a collective of various sub-sectors around gender equality, women's participation and economic advancement. It was also important in highlighting the various technological and impactful innovations of women from around the globe that are reshaping the way in which business and social enterprises respond to poverty reduction and human development.
a) The Cartier Women's Initiatives Awards was instrumental in showcasing and profiling high impact innovation of its global finalists — notably the recognition of an emergent South African social enterprise started by Thato Kgatlhanye (Rethaka Trading), who recycles plastic bags and manufactures a school bag with a solar panel that offers low income school children the possibility of light at home to read and complete after school tasks. This small business employs 17 full time staff and falls directly within the FP&M sub sector focus and these are the type of high impact entrepreneurship skills and innovation that must profiled, celebrated, encouraged and replicated nationally.
b) Another outcome of the trip is the Women in Leadership Development Programme that has since been established within the SETA. Conferences are currently being scheduled as part of this programme.
Belfast Skill Summit in February 2016The thematic focus of the skills summit was creating a skilled workforce: The importance of vocational education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The overall purpose of the programme was for participants to better understand how Northern Ireland is developing its skills system to meet its objective to “create one of the most entrepreneurial knowledge economies in Europe by 2030”, how developing skills for STEM is critical to achieving this and for sharing of various country experiences.
FP&MSETA directly contributed to increasing the number of beneficiaries as follows:
The trip indirectly contributed to increasing the number of beneficiaries as follows:
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