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National Training Board / HSRC investigations

Literature › Primary sources

Kind commission or official report
Producer National Training Board
Coverage 1984-1995
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Education, Bantu Education and skills 2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
The job colour bar, white labour and its erosion 1
Post-apartheid economic policy, governance and corruption 1
Racial wage gaps, wage convergence and wage determination 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Kraak (1995) National Training Board Annual Report 1990 and NTB/HSRC investigations (1986, 1989a, 1989b, 1991) 1986-1991 Cited for state concern with trainees' values and attitudes, and with white resistance and black marginalisation.
McGrath et al. (2004a) NTB/HSRC Investigations (1984 Training of Artisans; 1989 Skills Training in the RSA; 1991 National Training Strategy) 1984–1991 Principal evidence for the critique of apprenticeship, fragmentation of certification, employer-led training and reform proposals; includes survey findings on career paths and sit-by-Nellie training.
McGrath et al. (2004b) NTB/HSRC Investigations: Training of Artisans (1984), Skills Training in the RSA (1989), National Training Strategy (1991) 1984-1991 Core evidence on late-apartheid training reform, including firm survey findings on career paths and sit-by-Nellie training.
McGrath et al. (2004b) National Training Board guidelines 1986, annual report 1990, funding report 1995 1986-1995 Describe industry training board design and the failure of voluntarist levy funding.