A study by Old Mutual shows that there are five critical challenges that face school leavers in terms of what to do. These include the extremely high tertiary education fees, illiteracy, the high rate of unemployed graduates, the high tertiary drop-out rate and difficulty in finding internships.
South Africa’s unemployment rate jumped to 30.8% in the third quarter of last year – from 23.3% in the second quarter. The expanded definition of unemployment suggests an even worse picture. Statistics SA places the expanded definition of unemployment at 43.1% from 42% the previous quarter, a 1.1-percentage point increase.
The numbers are even worse for the black people with their rate of unemployment at 47.4% for Africans men and at 51.4% for African women.Melinda du Toit, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, said unemployed job seekers are likely to engage in small survivalist businesses.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
That and curbing of illegal immigration.
Long overdue critical intervention.
Cool idea, but very hard to be taught by teachers who have no passion for /clue about it.
Yes, i am in agreement with the experts.