Annual Performance Plan 2016/17

The Annual Performance Plan (APP) presented is built from the work undertaken in 2015/16 and serves to implement the vision for the Department as contained in the electoral mandate of the current administration and in the White Paper for Post-School Education and Training.
The strategic objectives are to:
1) Establish credible institutional mechanisms for the labour market and skills planning
2) Increase access and success in Programmes leading to intermediate and high-level learning
3) Increase access to- and efficiency of high-level occupationally directed Programmes in needed areas
4) Increase access to occupationally directed Programmes in required areas and expansion of the availability of intermediate level skills, with a special focus on artisan skills.
The Strategic Plan that was tabled in Parliament in 2015/16 explains the trajectory the department will be undertaking in the next five years to 2019/20 in the quest to achieve the afore-mentioned. The journey began in 2015/16 when specific interventions aimed at steering the Post-School Education and Training system were initiated.
The department remain focused on increasing access to Post-School Education and Training opportunities. In this regard, nine Community Education and Training (CET) Colleges, in each province have been established. This new institutional type complements the 50 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Colleges and the university sector that has in the past two years increased by three more universities to make a complement of 26 spread across all nine provinces.
Alongside these institutions, there are 21 Sector Education and Training Authorities (SETAs) which are responsible for both understanding sectoral economic skills needs and support education and training initiatives.