Higher Education and HSRC to release report on Skills Supply and Demand in South Africa

The Department of Higher Education and Training in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) invite members of the media to attend the official release of the first report on Skills Supply and Demand in South Africa. The release forms part of the two-day Research Colloquium on Skills Planning scheduled to take place at Birchwood Hotel on Thursday, 29 September 2016. In 2009, the South African government prioritised skills planning through government priority Outcome 5.1.1, to “establish a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning” (DHET, 2010a).  To meet the Outcome 5.1.1 objectives, in 2012 the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) initiated a collaboration with an HSRC-led consortium (Human Sciences Research Council, University of Cape Town, and University of Witwatersrand) to establish the Labour Market Intelligence Partnership (LMIP) project.