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Skills Planning for SIPs: Methodology used & reflections on possible implications and issues for ‘a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning’ As at 19th March 2014 By Adrienne Bird, DDG: Special Projects Unit, DHET Work in Progress

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Skills Planning for SIPs: Methodology used & reflections on possible implications and issues for

‘a credible institutional mechanism for skills planning’

 As at 19th March 2014

By Adrienne Bird, DDG: Special Projects Unit, DHET

Work in 

Progress

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Introduction 

This is as much about ‘our future’ as about ‘yours’. 

SIPs planning to become part of ‘mechanism’

Lessons and convergence 

The document therefore has two 

purposes: 

to describe the methodology 

being used by the SIPs team

to reflect on the possible implications of the methodology being used for the ‘credible mechanism’

Delivery pressure 

building model as we go 

The PICC is impatient of delays – wants numbers

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Occupations

required

Occupations

in deman

dInform DHET

institutionsOccup

ational TeamsEngagement with

SETAs

Engagement with

Engagement with

Institutions

Reporting

M&E & Report

s

SUMMARY OF METHODOLOGY

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Occupations required

• All PICC projects have been grouped under a list of sectors and sub-sectors

• A typical size project has been selected for each sub-sector

• A skills prototype has been developed for each typical project 

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Occupations in demand

•  Prototypes have been used to estimate the skills required for all real projects

•  Technical experts have also been asked which positions are hard to fill

• List takes into account supply & nat. demand

• These estimations have been used to generate a 'occupations in demand' list 

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SIPs Skills Plan: Occupations in Demand

Critically scarce:(50-100% scarcity)

Surveyor                     500    (incl land and eng. surveyors)Materials Engineer      450Grader Operator      450Programme/ Project Manager                           350Electronic Eng Technician  300

Significantly scarce: (20 – 50%)Concreter       2500Bricklayer       1700Civil Engineer       1400Electrician       1200Electrical Engineer       1100Construction supervisor /clerk of works       1100Electrical Engineering Technician

        950Millwright (incl. electromechanician)         600Safety, Health, Environment and Quality Practitioner     550Boilermaker          500Carpenter and Joiner          500Mechanical Engineer          450Ind. Machinery Mechanic        450Construction Project Manager / Site Manager          450

Plumber         400Painter                                400Mech. Eng Technician               350Draughtsperson         350Excavator Operator         300Environmental Eng         300Chem Eng Technician                300Pipe Fitter         300Concrete Plant Worker             250Earthmoving Plant Operator                                      250Plasterer         250Welder         220Quantity Surveyor         200Rigger         200Crane or Hoist Operator          200 

0 – 20% scarcity not shown

Gap 1 – broad estimates

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Inform DHET institutions

•  The 'scarce skills' list was given to DHET institutions for bottom-up planning

• Institutions infuse into overall institutional priorities (e.g. SSPs for SETAs, univ/college plan)

• Data collected from other data sources

SIP Scarce Skills list

Local /Sectoral / Institution issues

First generation plan

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Occupational Teams

• Intermediate Bodies (IBs) set up to establish Occupational Teams (OTs)

• DHET prepares standard reporting template

• OTs generate reports which include problem analysis & proposed solutions • Assessor• Workplace

convener

• Training Centre

convener

• Theory convener

Theory Practical

Final assessm

ent

Structured

workplace learning

Occupational Clusters Intermediate Bodies

Managers (primarily public sector)

Department of Public Service and Administration

Professionals & Associate Professionals Council for the Built Environment

Service and Clerical Workers Services SETA

Trades INDLELA, DHET

Plant and Machine Operators Transport/Construction SETAs

Elementary and non-trade production workers

Construction Industry Development Board

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University

University of Technology

Professional Body

Work Placed Training

Example Mechanical Engineer Occupational Team and 

Network

Occupational Team

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SharePoint and Reporting per Occupation

Consolidated Occupation Information

Occupations required over time 

per location

Reports

SharePointOccupational Teams

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Example of OT Report

Land SurveyorsOFO Occupation Theory Workplace Building capacity

216502 Land surveyors Land and engineering surveyors are in short supply, but to increase the numbers more equipment and the development of more academics is essential.

MSc Scholarship for 10 @ R 100 000 per post grad p.a.  PhD Scholarship for 5 @ R 150 000 per post grad p.a.    

R180 000 per candidate over 3 years. A total of 40 new candidates to be taken on annually  

Increase enrolment, in all degrees through marketing: R 100 000 p.a. Postgraduate  research project support for UCT:       R 250 000 p.a Post graduate research project grant for 15 @ R  50 000 Equipment required for increased enrolment UCT - R 2 755 000UKZN - R 1 182 136 

From Entry to Expertise – learning pathway

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Engagement with SETAs

• DHET engages one-on-one with SETAs asking them to respond to OT reports;

•  SETAs interrogate report in the light of their SSPs and make commitments

•  SETAs locate workplace learning sites thru’ grant incentives to employers 

OFO Occupation

Theory (Post-graduate / Bursaries)

Workplace Other (see

definition above)

Key No.

Unit cost

Total No. Unit Cost Total

Management 27 R 906,000 20 R 660,000 R 0

134901 Environmental manager  14  R 142,000  R 592,000  10  R 288,000  R 360,000       

212908 Quality Manager (Employed) 

3  R 10,500  R 14,000                

121905 Programme and Project Manager  

10  R 30,000  R 300,000  10  R 30,000  R 300,000       

Professionals and associate professionals 381

R 12,421,900 796

R 28,813,000 R 0

214501 Chemical engineering (WIL) 

149  R 294,200  R 5,198,200  153 R 

2,074,800 R 5,619,600       

214501  Chemical engineer  

149  R 294,200  R 5,198,200  153  R 2,074,800 

R 5,619,600       

311601 Chemical engineer technician   

11  R 7,000  R 77,000                

CHIETAs Commitments to SIP Scarce Skills – Feb 2014

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Engage with institutions• DHET engages one-on-

one with institutions (or groups of institutions) asking them to respond to OT reports

• Institutions interrogate report in the light of their plans & make commitments  - integrated into enrolment, PQM and earmarked funding plans

Minister signs off Final planLinked to funding allocation

OT plan

Institutional plan

Key issue: Planning cyclesCentres of specialisation (Differentiation - occupations 

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Reports and M&E

•  Reports prepared 'up' to PICC and 'down' to institutions 

• Monitoring and evaluation of commitments built into mainline reporting system back into DHET

INNOVATION ‘New Skills for New Jobs’ with EU

NB. Role of ESSA 

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ReflectionsCentral language: ‘Occupation’ Enables planning to migrate from ‘single employer’ needs to skill sets which will 

give learner maximum labour market mobility Address debates:

Occupations and tasks Occupations and sectors Occupations and discipline knowledge

Occupational Teams – interface between demand and supply, built on Advisory Committees of UOTs/Technikons, extend model to other clusters. Note: Networks with ‘theme 4’ intermediate agencies.

Pathways (NCAP) is another way to map OFO to CESM. NLRD has data. DANGER: If occupations are used exclusively, there is the danger that they become 

‘islands’ and that progression is undermined.  This danger could be managed by introducing the notion of the National Occupational Pathway Framework (NOPF) structures where the experts that interface with the sectoral specialists are responsible for pathways of occupations and not ‘islands’. 

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O*NET http://www.onetonline.org

• We are eager to tangibly demonstrate the benefits of detailed occupational information and to explore the ways it might inform human-resource development in South Africa. 

• As a way to kick-start our involvement and to give you an occupation-centric resource to point to, I am contemplating asking Alex to develop profiles of the occupations on South Africa’s critical skills list based on information in the O*NET database. We could combine these occupational profiles with existing research in our field on how best to train and develop the various knowledge, skills, and abilities that O*NET identifies as critical to these scarce occupations. All of this could be packaged into a report and presentation that we could deliver to DHET and/or the Human Science Research Council.

Prof. Lori Foster Thompson <[email protected]>

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Reflections Could ‘prototype’ model be used in other non-SIP contexts e.g. predictable service delivery contexts (government departments & entities own skill needs?) [Could be regularly reviewed]

If yes, this would be useful, inter alia, for workplace learning planning in public spaces.

Best results gained when prototype builders have specialist knowledge or at least some relevant technical expertise. This has implications for capacity of proposed Unit. (NOPF??)

Use standard tools e.g. ‘toolkit’ will make consolidation of data much easier. Will need standard ‘languages’ e.g. sector definitions

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We look forward to collaborating going forward

- Thank you