NDP YOUTH CHAPTER.............."South Africa has an urbanising, youthful population. This presents an opportunity to boost economic growth, increase employment and reduce poverty. The Commission,recognising that young people bear the brunt of unemployment, adopted a “youth lens” in preparing its proposals, which include: A nutrition intervention for pregnant women and young children. Universal access to two years of early childhood development. Improve the school system, including increasing the number of students achieving above 50 percent in literacy and mathematics, increasing learner retention rates to 90 percent and bolstering teacher training. Strengthen youth service programmes and introduce new, community-based programmes to offer young people life-skills training, entrepreneurship training and opportunities to participate in community development programmes. Strengthen and expand the number of FET colleges to increase the participation rate to 25 percent. Increase the graduation rate of FET colleges to 75 percent. Provide full funding assistance covering tuition, books, accommodation and living allowance to students from poor families. Develop community safety centres to prevent crime and include youth in these initiatives. A tax incentive to employers to reduce the initial cost of hiring young labour-market entrants. A subsidy to the placement sector to identify, prepare and place matric graduates into work. The subsidy will be paid upon successful placement. Expand learnerships and make training vouchers directly available to job seekers. A formalised graduate recruitment scheme for the public service to attract highly skilled people. Expand the role of state-owned enterprises in training artisans and technical professionals."
Posted on: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:23:40 +0000
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