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Dear Colleague,
I hope you have had the best of starts to 2010. CSD’s first e-newsletter of the year includes a look back at the launch of our Training for Rural Development report, which focuses on the need for agricultural and enterprise skills for women smallholders in developing countries. We have launched a website dedicated to the research project - www.skillsdevelopment.org/T4RD - which I would encourage you to visit. We would greatly welcome your feedback on the website and the report itself.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the external contributors to this issue of the newsletter: Liane Cresswell of the National Skills Forum, Simon Reddy and Cathy Robertson of Boland College.
I hope you find the articles of interest and that you will feel free to forward our newsletter to your colleagues. If you have any comments or would like to contribute to future editions, please contact the editor.
Kind regards,
Nick Grist
Senior Programme Manager
City & Guilds Centre for Skills Development (CSD)
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CSD's report Training for Rural Development: agricultural and enterprise training for women smallholders, which was published last month, explores how policy makers and trainers need to adapt their training programmes in order to truly meet the needs of women smallholders. Heidi Agbenyo, Senior Manager, Stakeholder Engagement, highlights the key findings and recommendations.
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Simon Reddy, a Master Plumber who is also working towards his PhD in Education, describes his experience of becoming a skilled craftsman, and shares his concern that contemporary vocational training has lost sight of an essential quality: instilling the desire to do a job well.
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The findings of an inquiry by the National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group clearly demonstrate the issues of further education and employment faced by young people from three social groups – black and ethnic minorities, offenders and ex-offenders, and disabled people. Liane Cresswell, Research and Policy Coordinator at the National Skills Forum, gives an overview of the final report, Doing Things Differently: step changes in skills and inclusion, and the key recommendations for change in skills policy to achieve greater equality.
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In an uncertain labour market, the importance of having ‘employability skills’ has never been greater. But what exactly do we mean by these skills? Who carries the responsibility for developing them, and what approaches have produced the desired results for employers? Chris Sims, CSD Policy & Strategy Adviser, investigates.
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South Africa suffers from high levels of unemployment and the provision of skills training appears to be a constant battle against bureaucracy. Cathy Robertson, Deputy CEO Innovation and Development at Boland College, a Further Education and Training Institution in the Western Cape, explains how the skills development landscape has been shaped over the years.
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Kate Shoesmith, Senior Manager for Policy & Practice at CSD, argues the case for handing back the responsibility for apprenticeships to employers, less government involvement, and greater financial support to ensure apprenticeships are successful and contribute to business and economic growth.
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CSD have produced a series of briefing note on issues affecting the global vocational education and training sector. These notes aim to briefly summarise and compare existing research, policy and practice in different countries, and to use this to develop general principles as a starting point for debate among education stakeholders. For more comprehensive information on specific issues please refer to the further reading sections of the notes, or contact CSD directly.
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