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Siyaphumelela Conference: A student-centered approach

31st Jul 201928th Oct 2021Kim Ingle

Towards the end of June, the fifth annual Siyaphumelela Conference took place at the Wanderers Club, Johannesburg. This conference provided a platform for those involved with Siyaphumelela to share and discuss the interventions they have undertaken over the last five years to tackle challenges in the university sector. SALDRU researchers Nicola Branson and Samantha Culligan presented the concept of a Stronger South African Nation website to the audience.

Consulting Youth on Basic Package of Support for Young People

31st Jul 201929th Jul 2020Kim Ingle

As part of the SALDRU-led research consortium to design a Basic Package of Support for young people who are not in education, employment or training, the project recently partnered with the youth leadership organisation, Activate!, to run workshops to gain a deeper insight into the challenges faced by young people in South Africa, their needs and their everyday experiences.

Tracking high-value credentials as a unifying Post-Secondary Education and Training goal

30th Jul 201928th Oct 2021Kim Ingle

The Lumina Foundation set a goal for the US: The aim is for 60% of Americans between the ages of 25-64 to hold degrees, certificates or other high-quality postsecondary credentials by 2025. Lumina tracks the share of the population with such qualifications using the “Stronger Nation” interactive website. The Kresge Foundation is funding the Siyaphambili project within SALDRU to create a hub for post-school research in South Africa. One of the objectives is to develop the equivalent of a “Stronger South African Nation”, a user-friendly interface that can be used to track and monitor educational attainment.

Measuring high value post-school credentials in South Africa

30th Jul 201931st Aug 2022Kim Ingle

South Africa is renowned for its stark and persistent unemployment level, especially among the youth. Many young people enter the labour force with limited skills due to low levels of school completion, limited access to post-school education and training, and poor post-school qualification completion rates. What do we know about where youth go to obtain their skills and where South Africans complete certificates, diplomas and degrees?

Women, transport and employment in Africa

26th Jun 201927th Jul 2022Kim Ingle

Women in Africa face substantial discrimination in the transport sector, both as transport users and as transport sector employees. This affects their wider access to work in every sector. Relevant skills acquisition, at an early age, is essential if women are to break through such barriers. A new multi-country research project aims to understand these challenges better.

ETCP to become a new standalone research unit

26th Jun 201927th Mar 2020Kim Ingle

The Economics of Tobacco Control Project (ETCP), which has been housed in SALDRU since its inception in 2011, will soon become an independent URC-accredited research unit in the School of Economics. From the very outset, the aim was to be an independent research unit, and the growth in the ETCP in the past years means that the formal ties with SALDRU will soon be officially broken.

Youth Explorer training

27th May 201913th Dec 2020Kim Ingle

This month, SALDRU researchers, in partnership with the Department of the Premier of the Western Cape Government and OpenUp , organised a half day workshop on the use of SALDRU’s Youth Explorer and its range of youth-specific indicators, mapped at national, provincial and ward level.

ARUA ACEIR Workshops

27th May 201928th Oct 2021Kim Ingle

This month, the South African node of the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) (hosted in SALDRU), participated in a networking workshop organised by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and the “Northern 8” (N8) universities of the UK. The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate collaboration and provide a platform for joint projects amongst the ARUA network and the N8 universities.

Can Ramaphosa Do It?

27th May 201930th Jun 2021Kim Ingle By Andrew Donaldson, Senior Research Officer, SALDRU

Following South Africa's recent parliamentary election, President Cyril Ramaphosa has a long economic reform agenda and a public impatient for results. He will need both skill and statesmanship to overcome the corruption and bureaucratic inertia holding back the country's economy.

Providing a multi-faceted package of support to young people

27th May 201930th Jan 2022Kim Ingle

While the transition from adolescence to young adulthood is a crucial life phase, most of South Africa’s young people are negotiating this period in the context of multiple challenges of deprivation. Of great concern are the close to one third of 15 to 24-year-olds who are not in any kind of education, employment or training (NEET), totalling just over three million youth. With a growing body of research pointing to the harmful long-term effects of such a disconnect on these youth, a SALDRU-led coalition project is in the process of designing an intervention programme that can give these youth support and that is tailor-made for their individual circumstances.