Fet college lecturers: The ‘devolving’ link in the South African skills development equation

Journal of Vocational Education and Training

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 297-313

  Akoojee, Salim ^a,b  

^a Engineering and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority)   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Education policy; Fet policy; Further Education and Training; South African education and training; Technical and vocational education and training; Technical colleges

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649932352     PISSN: 13636820     EISSN: 17475090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13636820802305645     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Adams, J., Mabunda, P., and McGrath, S., 2006. Governing transformation:The role of college councils in further education and training college reform in South Africa. Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 20 (1):77–95.
2. Akoojee, S., and Nkomo, M., 2007. Access and quality in South African Higher Education:The twin challenges of transformation. South African Journal of Higher Education, 21 (3):385–99.
3. Akoojee, S., McGrath, S., and Visser, M., 2008. “ Further education and training colleges ”. In Human resources development review 2008:Education, employment and skills in South Africa, Edited by:Kraak, A., and Press, K., 254–77. Cape Town:HSRC.
4. Atchoarena, D., and Delluc, A., 2002. Revisiting technical and vocational education in sub-Saharan Africa, Paris:UNESCO, International Institute for Educational Planning.
5. Avis, J., 2005. Beyond performativity:reflections on activist professionalism and the labour process in further education. Journal of Education Policy, 20 (2):209–22.
6. Badroodien, A., and Kallaway, P., 2003. Further education and training in South Africa:The pursuit if skills and learning–to work. Southern Africa Review of Education, with Education with Production, 9–10:5–20.
7. Burchill, F., 1998. Five years of change:A survey of pay terms and conditions in FE five years after college incorporation, London:NATFHE (National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education.
8. Chisholm, L., 2004. “ Introduction ”. In Changing class, education and social change in post-Apartheid South Africa, Edited by:Chisholm, L., 1–28. Cape Town:HSRC Press.
9. Clarke, J., and Newman, J., 1997. The Managerial State, London:Sage.
10. Crouch, L., 2005. South Africa equity and quality reforms:Possible lessons. Journal of Education for International Development, 1 (1) http://www.equip123.net/JEID/articles/1/1–2.pdf
11. DoE (Department of Education). 1997. Report of the National Committee on Further Education:A framework for the transformation of further education and training in South Africa, Pretoria:DoE.
12. DoE (Department of Education). 2001. A new institutional landscape for the public further education and training colleges, Pretoria:DoE.
13. DoE (Department of Education). 2002. Education statistics at a glance in 2000, Pretoria:DoE.
14. DoE (Department of Education). 2004a. The new FET professional:The challenge of staffing responsiveness in FET colleges, Pretoria:DoE.
15. DoE (Department of Education). 2004b. Education Statistics at a Glance in 2001, Pretoria:DoE.
16. DoE (Department of Education). 2005a. Education Statistics at a Glance in 2002, Pretoria:DoE.
17. DoE (Department of Education). 2005b. Education Statistics at a Glance in 2000, Pretoria:DoE.
18. DoE (Department of Education). 2005c. Education Statistics at a Glance in 2003, Pretoria:DoE.
19. DoE (Department of Education). 2005d. Education Statistics at a Glance in 2004, Pretoria:DoE.
20. DoE (Department of Education). 2006a. Education Statistics at a Glance in South Africa in 2005, Pretoria:DoE.
21. DoE (Department of Education). 2006b. “ Table 1:GDP, Total State Finance and State Finance of Education ”. http://www.education.gov.za/mainDocuments.asp?src=dvie&xsrc=165 (last accessed 21 June 2007)
22. DoE (Department of Education). 2006c. Department of Education and ASGI-SA. Presentation to Portfolio Committee on Education. Parliament
23. DoL (Department of Labour). 2005. The national skills development strategy 2005–2010, Pretoria:Government Printers.
24. Eliott, G., and Hall, V., 1994. FE Inc.:Business orientation in further education and the introduction of human resource management. School Organisation, 14 (1):3–10.
25. Fiske, E.B., and Ladd, H.F., 2004. “ Balancing public and private resources for basic education:School fees in post-Apartheid South Africa ”. In Changing class, education and social change in post-Apartheid South Africa, Edited by:Chisholm, L., 57–88. Cape Town:HSRC Press.
26. Gleeson, D., 2001. Style and substance in education leadership:Further education (FE) as a case in point. Journal of Education Policy, 16 (3):181–96.
27. Gleeson, D., Davies, J., and Wheeler, E., 2005. On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26 (4):445–60.
28. Hodge Report. 1998. House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment:Sixth report (further education), London:HMSO.
29. HSRC (Human Sciences Research Council). 2006. Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme:Summative impact assessment, Pretoria:HSRC.
30. IIEP (International Institute of Educational Planning/UNESCO). 2006. “ The governance of further education and training (FET) colleges in South Africa ”. Draft report presented at the Central Johannesburg College for FET, March 29, Ellis Park Campus
31. Jansen, J., 2004. The National Qualifications Framework and the Shaping of a New South Africa, University of Pretoria. Paper delivered in September
32. Johanson, R., and Adams, A., 2004. Skills development in sub-Saharan Africa, Washington, DC:World Bank.
33. King, K., and McGrath, S., 2002. Globalisation, enterprise and knowledge, Oxford:Symposium.
34. Kraak, A., and Hall, G., 1999. Transforming further education and training in South Africa:A case study of technical colleges in KwaZulu-Natal, Pretoria:HSRC Press.
35. Letseka, M., and Maile, S., 2008. High university drop-out rates:A threat to South Africa’s future, Pretoria:HSRC. HSRC Policy Brief
36. Lucas, N., 2004. The ‘FENTO Fandango’:National standards, compulsory teaching qualifications and the growing regulation of FE college teachers. The Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28 (1):35–51.
37. Mapenzauswa, S., 2008. SA unemployment seen keeping tensions high. Mail and Guardian Online, June 7. http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=341170&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__business/
38. Mbeki, T., 2004. State of the Nation address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Cape Town:Joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament. 21 May. www.gov.za
39. McGrath, S., 2003. “ Building college responsiveness in South Africa ”. In Technical college responsiveness:Learner destinations and labour market environments in South Africa, Edited by:Cosser, M.C., McGrath, S., Badroodien, A., and Maja, B., 93–102. Cape Town:HSRC Press.
40. McGrath, S., 2004. “ The state of the South African further education and training college sector ”. In Shifting understandings of skills in South Africa:Overcoming the historical imprint of a low skills regime, Edited by:McGrath, S., Badroodien, A., Kraak, A., and Unwin, L., 1–19. Cape Town:HSRC Press.
41. McGrath, S., 2005. “ The multiple context of vocational education and training in Southern Africa ”. In Vocational education and training in Southern Africa:A comparative study, Edited by:Akoojee, S., Gewer, A., and McGrath, S., 1–8. Cape Town:HSRC Press.
42. McGrath, S., and Akoojee, S., 2007a. Education and skills for development in South Africa:Reflections on the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa. International Journal for Educational Development, 27 (4):421–34.
43. McGrath, S., and Akoojee, S., 2007b. The emergence of marketing and communications strategy in South African further education and training colleges. Education, Knowledge and Economy, 1 (3):301–21.
44. Oketch, M.O., 2007. To vocationalise or not to vocationalise? Perspectives on current trends and issues in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in Africa. International Journal of Educational Development,:220–34.
45. Pollitt, C., 1993. Managerialism and the public services:Cuts or cultural change in the 1990s?, 2nd ed., Oxford:Blackwell.
46. Powell, L., and Hall, G., 2000. Quantitative overview of South African technical colleges, Pretoria:Department of Education (DoE.
47. Powell, L., and Hall, G., 2002. Quantitative overview of the further education and training college sector:The new landscape, Pretoria:DoE.
48. Powell, L., and Hall, G., 2004. Quantitative overview of the further education and training college sector:A sector in transition:April 2004, Pretoria:DoE.
49. Robinson, M., 2007. Introduction:Decentralising Service Delivery? Evidence and Policy Implication. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Bulletin, 38 (1):1–16. http://www.ids.ac.uk/UserFiles/File/publications/bulletin/1Robinson38.1.pdf
50. RSA (Republic of South Africa). 1996. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (Act 108 of 1996), Pretoria:Government Printers.
51. RSA (Republic of South Africa). 1998. Further Education and Training Act (Act 98 of 1998), Pretoria:Government Printers.
52. RSA (Republic of South Africa). 2004a. Programme of action, Pretoria:Government Printers.
53. RSA (Republic of South Africa). 2004b. Trends in intergovernmental finances:2000/01–2006/07, Pretoria:National Treasury/Government Communications Information Services (GCIS. Republic of South Africa, National Treasury
54. RSA (Republic of South Africa). 2006. Further Education and Training Colleges Act (Act 16 of 2006), Pretoria:Government Printers.
55. Simkins, T., 2000. Education reform and managerialism:Comparing the experience of schools and colleges. Journal of Education Policy, 15 (3):317–32.
56. Vinjevold, P., FET college re-capitalisation. Presentation to DOE-HSRC-DANIDA Conference, June 27, at Kopanong Conference Centre. Pretoria.
57. World Bank. 1991. Vocational and technical education and training:A World Bank policy paper, Washington, DC:World Bank.
58. Young, M., 2006. FET college teachers:A knowledge-based profession of the future. Perspectives in Education, 24 (3):153–63.