SPEAKERS

Youth Livelihood Programmes as a Response to the increasing number of "Out-of-school" Youth

Chris Murray

Chris Murray is an accomplished international development professional with over 20 years of experience in the youth development and work force sectors in South Africa and internationally. As a Youth Livelihoods Specialist, he has worked in South Africa, Mali, Kosovo, and Kenya on projects that consider livelihood opportunities related to training in Rural and Poverty areas. He has managed a series of successful nationwide youth entrepreneurship development projects in partnerships with FET Colleges - SHINTSHA. He has provided strategic support to the DHET through the Task Team support process that contributed to the FET Summit in August 2010. The Summit has made recommendations that will contribute to laying the foundation for sustainable growth in the FET College subsystem beyond 2011.

Challenges in evaluation and assessment for national vocational programmes

Nadine Pote

Director : Department of Higher Education and Training: Examinations

POSITIONS AND CORE FUNCTIONS
Director: Examinations and Assessment, Department of Higher Education and Training – 2 years
• Manage the setting, conduct and administration of National Certificate (Vocational) and ABET site-based
assessment and national examinations
Director: School Safety and Enrichment Programmes, Department of Education – 1 year
• Implementation of school safety interventions at schools experiencing high levels of crime and violence
• Coordination of national school enrichment programmes, inclusive of national sporting events and Choral
Eisteddfod
Chief Education Specialist: FET Schools Curriculum, Department of Education – 3 years
• Roll-out and support the implementation of the NCS in Grades 10-12
• National Core Team Leader involved in training of provincial officials
NAPTOSA Representative in National Department of Education, NAPTOSA – 2 years
• Support the roll-out and implementation of the NCS in Grades R-9
• National Core Team Member involved in training of provincial officials
Post Level 1 Educator, Eastern Cape Department of Education, Hoërskool Cillié, Port Elizabeth - 14 years
• Subject Teaching: Grades 8-12 (Accountancy, English, Physical Education)
• Management and administration of exam resulting process

Future leaders in South African Further Education and Training Colleges: a profile and needs assessment

Dr Ruth Albertyn & Dr Liezel Frick

Centre for Higher and Adult Education, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dr Ruth Albertyn
Research associate at the Centre for Higher and Adult Education at Stellenbosch University
Brief CV
Dr Ruth Albertyn is involved in research projects in the field of Higher education, Adult education and Programme evaluation. She is a member of SAMEA (South African Monitoring and Evaluation Association). She is currently supervising doctoral candidates and has acted as external examiner for 21 Master's and doctoral theses. She is involved in research capacity building for academics and teaches Research Methodology at a Master's level. She has seventeen years lecturing experience at universities in the Western Cape. During that time she supervised Master;' and Doctoral students. She has published numerous articles in scholarly journals.

Dr Liezel Frick
Lecturer in adult education at the Centre for Higher and Adult Education in the Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University.
Brief CV
Dr Liezel Frick is a member of the International Doctoral Education Research Network (IDERN) and leads several research projects into aspects of doctoral and further education. She is study leader and promoter to 15 master's and doctoral students. She has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and chapters in academic books focused on learning in higher and further education. Her current research includes projects on the creativity and critical thinking in doctoral education, doctoral becoming, and leadership development in the FETC.

E-learning support for post school national vocational training programmes

Marian Theron

E-learning Manager: False Bay FET College

Brief CV
EDUCATION
1980 Matriculated from High School Bellville
1983 National Diploma in Food and Clothing, Cape Technikon
1987 National Higher Diploma in Food and Clothing, Cape Technikon
2000 Masters Degree: Food and Nutrition
2006 Partners@Work programme: E-learning practitioner course: Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)
EMPLOYMENT
1984 – 1990 Nestle, SA – Home Economist Cape Town
1993 – 2006 Technikon Pretoria/Tshwane University of Technology – Lecturer Pretoria
2008 – Current False Bay College – E-learn Manager Cape Town

INTERESTS AND EXTRA MURAL ACTIVITIES
I am very fond of people, to interact, communicate and share information and knowledge with people is my greatest interest and one of my best qualities. As an E-learn practitioner and educator I am enthusiastic and optimistic about the application of technology and innovation in teaching and the vast opportunities for the enrichment of courses to become student focused to effectively address specific training needs.

Creating a National Career Advice Helpline

Paul West

Director, Career Advice Services SAQA (South African Qualifications Authority)

Brief CV
Paul lives in Pretoria, where he works with the South African Qualifications Authority to establish a National Career Advice Helpline. This multi-channel Helpline is expected to help learners in the country at intervals throughout their lives, using a range of technologies including a telephone helpline, SMS, radio, and the Internet.

Prior to embarking on the establishment of the Career Advice Helpline, Paul lived in Canada for 9 years where he was Director: Knowledge Management and Information Technology at the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). He joined COL in August 2001 as Education Specialist: Knowledge Management and he became a Director in July 2006.

While at COL, Paul created the "COL knowledge finder" in 2002, an Internet based aggregated search facility for open and distance learning. He encouraged the use of open source software and open educational resources to expand access to learning content; and IT systems to support teaching and learning. Paul lead the establishment of the multi-national "Virtual University for the Small States of the Commonwealth" initiative, a collaboration of Ministries of Education in 32 countries (www.vussc.org). Paul also lead COL’s work in copyright, with particular emphasis on the use of Creative Commons licenses in education.

Paul Worked at Technikon SA for 12 years, during which time he lectured in Management; established non-formal education at the institution; supported the creation of institutes and the establishment of ICT Centres to support learners. He conceptualised and established the African Digital Library, a service that provides full-text eBooks to residents of African countries via the Internet.
http://www.careerhelp.org.za
http://www.saqa.org.za
http://www.pgw.org/

Post-school opportunities in the artisan world of work

Dr Florus Prinsloo

Chief Executive Officer: MQA (Mining Qualifications Authority)

Brief CV
Florus Prinsloo alias “Doc” holds an MBA from the Henley Management College (UK) and a Doctorate from RAU (now UJ), having started re-studying with a Standard nine at age 40 in 1995 because he was not going to get far with a Standard 9 in new South Africa.

He schooled in Nairobi Kenya, but then worked for an Anglo American subsidiary in the Mining & Minerals sector for twenty-four years, followed by a four year period as an entrepreneur - his hardest job, working for himself.

From May 2004 until June 2008 Doc worked at executive level in the Department of Labour to coordinate the SETAs and facilitated the 2008 amendment to the Skills Development Act including new chapters on Artisan Development and the QCTO.

Since July 2008 he has been the COO of the Mining SETA or MQA, back in familiar Mining and Minerals territory, now implementing all the rules he has set up for the SETAs while he was in Government.

Doc also serves as a member of the current Human Resource Development Council chaired by the Deputy President that has overall oversight for the national HRD Strategy, but his passion remains artisan development.