This, the tenth podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores the notion of a performing state with former public servant, Ketso Gordhan who today is still devoted and committed to public service. In exploring how we should be understanding the notion of a performing state, Gordhan highlights some elements including, having ethical and principled leadership which has some moral authority; politicians that care about people but more importantly, having senior public officials who are appointed within a merit-based system on the basis of values, skills ..read more

This, the ninth podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores impact and importance of the professionalisation framework and what it means for skills in the public service sector with Professor Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Executive Director of the Public Affairs Institute (PARI). Buthelezi – who served as a member of the Ministerial Task Team on the professionalisation of the public service – explains that the National Framework towards the implementation of Professionalisation of the Public Sector (approved by Cabinet on 19 October 2022) builds on a signif ..read more

This, the eighth podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by Renee Grawitzky who explores how skills demand and provision planning happens in the public service sector together with REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala. During discussion, he teased out how planning currently happens and at what levels as well as drawing a distinction between current and emerging demand and medium to long term demand and how these needs are being addressed in the public service. Tshabalala also touched on the opportunities for improving mechanisms for skills supply and demand and what the implications are for differ ..read more

This, the seventh podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores the notion of jobs, occupations and qualifications in the public service sector together with Glynnis Vergotine. During the discussion, Vergotine explains that the research was embarked upon so as to develop a framework for mapping jobs to occupations within the public service sector. This was achieved by exploring the links between jobs, qualifications and occupations and how to align work tasks of a job, the core knowledge and qualifications of an occupation and the contextual needs of ..read more

This, the fifth podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores the uptake of e-learning as a vehicle for the delivery of education and training in the public service sector together with Dr Wilma van Staden. During the discussion, she explores what the change drivers and difficulties of introducing e-learning in the sector. She then touches on how the PSETA can support the uptake of e-learning as well as what criteria are needed for evaluating e-learning programmes. Centre for Researching Education and Labour · Public Service Sector Education and Train ..read more

This, the fourth podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores with Professor Francine de Clercq and Kate Mlauzi how competency frameworks are used within the public service sector. During discussions, they touch on how different departments use them, whether they are effective and if they are empowering human resource tools. De Clercq and Mlauzi also talk to how they can be improved to ensure performance is properly managed for effective delivery. Centre for Researching Education and Labour · Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority (PS ..read more

This, the second podcast in the PSETA series, is hosted by REAL researcher Themba Tshabalala who explores the nature of the research partnership with REAL director Dr Presha Ramsarup. In discussion, Ramsarup stresses the importance of such partnerships which seeks to assist public institutions such as the PSETAs in connecting to thought leadership organisations such as REAL to think about its role in terms of skills supply and demand. Whilst highlighting key areas of research, Ramsarup also pointed to the work being done to assist the PSETA in an approach towards more effective skills planning ..read more