13 November 2020

  Online seminar  Overview: The presentation draws from a study undertaken with MerSETA called the Lived Livelihoods Study which aimed to understand the way(s) in which young people from two urban townships in Port Elizabeth are making their livelihoods in engineering related areas in the informal sector. The findings challenge our understandings of entrepreneurship, occupations, skills and what has become known as education to work pathways. It suggests that engaging with the implications of COVID – 19 for TVET colleges will demand tackling the implications of the fourth industrial revolution for these sectors. It would also mean engaging with how we understand the notion of skills, what we define as an occupation, what we understand when we talk about the tools of particular trades and how we understand pathways from school to TVET and from TVET  to work. Mainly, and importantly, it compels and propels us towards opening debate on what it might mean to talk about a responsive TVET college in the South Africa context.  Speaker:  Dr Lesley Powell, Research Chair: Youth Unemployment, Employability and Empowerment, Nelson Mandela University  Moderators:  Dr Francis Muronda, Researcher to the Research Chair: Youth Unemployment, Employability and Empowerment  Ms Shawn Tini, Junior Researcher to the Research Chair: Youth Unemployment, Employability and Empowerment  For more information: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/events/seminars/future-of-work-and-implications-sa-tvet-colleges