LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF ACRONYMS

INTRODUCTION
The shifting understandings of skills in South Africa since industrialisation
Simon McGrath

CHAPTER ONE
Technical and vocational education provision in South Africa from 1920 to 1970
Azeem Badroodien

CHAPTER TWO
Training policies under late apartheid: the historical imprint of a low skills regime
Andre Kraak

CHAPTER THREE
Agricultural and industrial curricula for South African rural schools: colonial origins and contemporary continuities
Andrew Paterson

CHAPTER FOUR
High skills: the concept and its application to South Africa
David N Ashton

CHAPTER FIVE
The National Skills Development Strategy: a new institutional regime for skills formation in post-apartheid South Africa
Andre Kraak

CHAPTER SIX
Understanding the size of the problem: the National Skills Development Strategy and enterprise training in South Africa
Azeem Badroodien

CHAPTER SEVEN
The state of the South African Further Education and Training college sector
Simon McGrath

CHAPTER EIGHT
A future curriculum mandate for Further Education and Training colleges: recognising intermediate knowledge and skill
Jeanne Gamble

CHAPTER NINE
Skills development for enterprise development: a major challenge for joined-up policy
Simon McGrath

CHAPTER TEN
Rethinking the high skills thesis in South Africa
Andre Kraak

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Towards economic prosperity and social justice: can South Africa show the way for policy-making on skills?
Lorna Unwin

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