SSACI believes that apprenticeships are an excellent way of training young people and proving employers with a high skilled workforce.
SSACI strives to find new, flexible, cost-effective, and innovative models, of artisan training.
Dual System Apprenticeship (DSA)
South Africa is in the process of reforming its apprenticeship system and has set itself a target of qualifying 24 000 new artisans by 2020 (DHET 2015).
Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges are viewed as key vehicles through which large numbers of artisans can be trained.
However, employers do not have trust in the quality of public TVET colleges & have taken responsibility for training artisans through their own in-house training facilities and private training providers (National Treasury n.d.).
The result is that TVET colleges have been side-lied in the supply chain for artisan development
