FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING SUMMIT Birchwood Conference Centre Prof Duma Malaza

1. FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING SUMMIT Birchwood Conference Centre Prof Duma Malaza Chief Executive Officer 4 September 2010

2. HESA’s PERSPECTIVE ON THE POST SCHOOL EDUCATION SYSTEM

3. OVERVIEW • Background: Challenges in the new HET System. • HESA’s strategic commitments • Giving effect to the HESA’s strategic commitments • Priority issues on the agenda of the HESA Task Team. • Concluding remarks.

4. BACKGROUND: Challenges in the new HET System • Development of a PSE system to deliver on a skilled and capable workforce to support an inclusive growth path. • Coordinate subsystems HE, FET, SETAs to deliver on: • Credible institutional mechanisms for skills planning • Access to intermediate and high level learning • Access to occupationally-directed programmes to expand intermediate level skills (special focus on artisans) • Access to high level occupationally-directed programmes • Human capital for research, development and innovation for a growing knowledge economy

5. HESA’S STRATEGIC COMMITMENTS: June 2009 • Achieving high levels of responsiveness and relevance: • HE within a effective, diverse and differentiated post school system. • HE contribution to creating viable pipeline in the spectrum from basic education to higher education. • Promoting a dynamic evolution of a differentiated higher education system, evolving from the varying institutional visions and missions of the institutions: • Effective division of labour among the universities. • Advocating for funding arrangements that facilitate institutional differentiation.

6. GIVING EFFECT TO THE HESA STRATEGIC COMMITMENTS: Task Team on the PSE System • Expert HE Task Team to: • Develop a sector position paper on a PSE system appropriate for national developmental agenda. • Propose a set of principles and policy options for the realization of such a system. • Specify the desirable role of HE in such a system. • Outline the nature of interface between HE and FET sector. • Identify opportunities for HESA in terms of capacity development initiatives within the FET College sector.

7. PRIORITY ISSUES IDENTIFIED BY THE HESA TASK TEAM FOR FURTHER ENGAGEMENT • Curriculum for the FET college sector • How it links to HE • How it responds to the national imperatives • Challenges relating to the articulation, mobility and progression of students from the FET college sector to the university sector • Implications for the HEQF; • Institutional models in place to forge partnership between universities and the FET college sector; and • Funding of the post-school education and training system. • Strategies for increasing post school educational opportunities

8. PRIORITY ISSUES ON THE AGENDA OF THE HESA TASK TEAM: 8 October 2010 Workshop • Articulation and how it relates to knowledge and curriculum (to facilitate articulation for students between the two sectors). • Articulation, mobility and progression of students, especially in relation to the challenges posed by the regulatory framework. • Strategies to respond to the educational needs of post school youth and increase post-school opportunities. • Institutional differentiation within the post-school system (different institutional types/models). • Interface between higher education and further education and training.

9. CONCLUDING REMARKS • A capacity development project is in place thro’ a partnership between the US and SA targeting 12 FET colleges. • HESA intends partnering with the FET sector and government to explore ways in which it can complement this project particularly in the following areas: • Leadership, management and governance. • Programme planning and design. • Student support services. • Staff development.

10. THANK YOU