Demand-driven skills development largely absent in government policy, says expert. Workplace demands and closer links between government and business are essential if skills development and job creation projects in South Africa are to have an impact. This view was expressed by John Botha, executive director for strategy at Production Management Institute (PMI) in a briefing [...]

South Africa’s Further Education and Training (FET) system is better placed than ever to put state funds to good use and accelerate the delivery of critical middle-level skills – especially artisans – into the economy. John Botha, PMI”s director of sales & strategy, says that with the overhaul of the FET college sector and of [...]

Skills development needs to take centre-stage if the dream of 2011 as the year of job creation – never mind the achievement of 5 million jobs in the next ten years – is ever to be realised. John Botha, PMI’s director of sales & strategy,  was reacting to the budget speech delivered yesterday by Finance [...]