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The Department of Higher Education & Training has gazetted the latest list of occupations in high demand.

According to the list’s background information, three technical and monitoring reports have found that:

South Africa has ‘very high’ levels of education-job mismatch, with 51.7% of workers employed in an occupation for which they do not have the correct education level
30.3% of workers are employed in an occupation that does not match the field of study of their highest educational attainment
approximately 23% of workers are overqualified for their jobs, and
28.7% are under-qualified for their jobs.

Compiled to ‘support’ planning processes in the post-school education and training system, among other things the list is expected to assist with:

identifying areas requiring the development of new qualifications that respond to ‘emerging occupations and skills needs’
‘resource allocation processes’, and
‘career guidance for learners and work-seekers’.

Please click here to access the list.

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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