Ramaphosa: ‘Equip our learners with technical skills to address youth unemployment, grow the economy’ - The president said the new three-stream model that offers more choices and better guidance would help address the school drop-out rate
says last year’s improved matric results must encourage the basic education sector to redouble efforts to address the “extremely serious” problem of learner dropout and youth unemployment., he said many learners leaving school before sitting for their matric exams made this year’s lekgotla theme, which focuses on equipping learners with knowledge and skills for a changing world, even more relevant.
“These subjects include agriculture, maritime and nautical science, electrical, civil and mechanical technologies, among others.”“These jobs can grow our economy and, importantly, the avenues for entrepreneurship that are so sorely needed can best be achieved by increasing learner access to technical and vocational subjects,” he said., said 90% of the employment opportunities require youth with vocational skills.
Ramaphosa said the high numbers of unemployed young people was something no country could afford, “but it is even worse if they are also not in education or training”.
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