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Tenacious call for more artisans to be trained2009/07/10 Bob Kernohan Province EDITOR kernohanb@avusa.co.za
AN course of study and training expert called yesterday for the “skills rebellion” to pick up and for artisans to be regarded not as “grease monkeys” but as being material to economic growth.
Dr Raymond Patel, chief official of the Manufacturing, Engineering and Kin Services Training Power (Merseta), also told matter leaders in Mandela Bay of the melodramatic drop, and likely shortfall, in the calculate of artisans in the country.
The million of artisans throughout the country totalled 28000 in 1986, but that dig had dropped to only 5000 in 2007, Patel said at a briefing organised by the PE Assembly room of Commerce and Industry (Percci) and Bridgestone Firestone tyres.
The mean age of artisans today was 54 – and Patel warned that unless flamboyant steps were taken both to heighten their numbers through accelerated training of thousands of replacements, and the identification of their vital role, broadening would be affected.
He blamed parents for not expectations their children to have jobs that twisted getting “their hands bedraggled” by being “grease monkeys ...”
Patel – who has a PhD in tutoring management – also urged that more stress be placed on students attending further schooling and training colleges (FETs). There they could office in “hard” skills, like engineering, discipline and technology, rather than taking “lenient” courses like marketing and communications
“We are the only outback in the world where we have more students at universities than we have at further edification and training facilities.”
Yet, he said, 86% of students from the FET colleges gained livelihood within six months of leaving.
Artisans could be practised within 18 months in terms of the accelerated listing. It required an entrance uniform of N3 or N4, depending on the field chosen, and comprised 24...
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