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How useful are skills acquired at adult non-formal education and training centres for finding employment in South Africa?

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Author	Mayombe, Celestin Lombard, Antoinette
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Non-formal adult education and training (NFET) in South Africa is instrumental in breaking the high level of poverty and decreasing the social inequality the country continues to face as a post-apartheid democracy. Public and private NFET centres in South Africa aim to meet the training needs of adults who have been deprived of formal education with courses which foster access to opportunities for skills acquisition and employment and bring about social and economic inclusion. However, many adults who were facing long-term unemployment due to a lack of marketable skills remain unemployed after completing NFET programmes. This paper reports on a study which investigated what constitutes favourable conditions (“internal enabling environments”) for skills acquisition inside NFET centres leading to employment and how they can be improved to contribute to coordinated efforts of increasing NFET graduates’ paid and/or self-employment capacities. The authors found that centres focusing on activities suitable for self-employment during training were more likely to create internal enabling environments for skills acquisition and income generation than centres offering courses designed for entering paid employment. The authors conclude that there appears to be a significant correlation between NFET centres’ training programme objectives, financial resources, trainee selection criteria, the process of training needs assessment, and skills acquisition for successful employment outcomes of NFET graduates. Without these internal enabling factors, adult trainees are likely to continue finding it difficult to integrate into the labour market or participate in economic activities and hence break the cycle of poverty and social exclusion.Les compétences acquises dans les centres d’éducation et de formation non formelles des adultes aident-elles à trouver un emploi en Afrique du Sud ? - L’éducation et la formation non formelles des adultes jouent en Afrique du Sud un rôle important pour baisser sensiblement le taux élevé de pauvreté et réduire les inégalités sociales, auxquels cette démocratie post-apartheid est encore confrontée. Les centres publics et privés d’éducation et de formation non formelles des adultes visent dans le pays à répondre aux besoins éducatifs des adultes qui n’ont pas été scolarisés, par des mesures qui leur ouvrent l’accès à l’acquisition de compétences et à l’emploi et favorisent leur intégration sociale et économique. Néanmoins, de nombreux adultes qui étaient chômeurs de longue durée par manque de compétences monnayables demeurent sans emploi après avoir accompli un programme dans ces centres. Cet article présente une étude sur la nature des conditions favorables (les « environnements internes propices ») pour acquérir dans ces centres des compétences qui débouchent sur un emploi, et sur les moyens de les renforcer pour contribuer aux efforts conjugués d’augmenter la rémunération des stagiaires sortants et/ou leurs capacités d’auto-emploi. Les auteurs constatent que les centres qui privilégient des activités adaptées à un travail indépendant pendant la formation sont plus susceptibles de créer des environnements internes propices à l’acquisition de compétences et la création de revenus, que les centres qui proposent des cours destinés à obtenir un emploi salarié. Les auteurs en concluent qu’il semble exister un lien significatif entre objectifs des programmes de formation de ces centres, ressources financières, critères de sélection des participants, système d’évaluation des besoins en formation, et acquisition de compétences en vue d’une embauche concluante pour les stagiaires sortants. En l’absence de ces facteurs internes propices, il est probable que les apprenants adultes continuent à rencontrer des difficultés à intégrer le marché du travail ou à participer à des activités économiques, et ainsi à rompre le cercle vicieux de la pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale.
Starting Page	611
Ending Page	630
Page Count	20
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00208566
Journal	International Review of Education
Volume Number	61
Issue Number	5
e-ISSN	15730638
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-11-12
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Non-formal education and training Skills acquisition Training needs assessment Internal enabling environments Adult education Human capital theory South Africa International and Comparative Education Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education E-learning

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