Forging TVET College Partnerships July 2014

Forging TVET College Partnerships – Implications for the Post-School Education and Training System

The purpose of this paper is to propose measures for strengthening and supporting partnerships between Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and a range of stakeholders.

Since the advent of democracy there has been a proliferation of policy outlines that make constant referral to South Africa as a “developmental state” and the solutions to its structural problems as contained within that ideological paradigm. Closely in step with the developmental state narrative, the Green Paper for Post-School Education and Training (2012) and the subsequent White Paper (2014) labour the point of promoting the growth of strong partnerships between TVET Colleges and employers.
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