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Uniting for a Sustainable Automotive Industry – High Gear’s Pledge for the Future
High Gear, a significant initiative from the International Youth Foundation (IYF), has been instrumental in advancing the TVET system with modernised automotive engineering curricula, bridging the educational gap with the evolving demands of industry. This initiative,...
IYF and ASDSA Collaborate to Boost TVET Lecturer Development
In a groundbreaking achievement, IYF has successfully finalised its registration in partnership with ASDSA, the accrediting professional body for lecturer training programs under Skills for Life (S4L). This milestone is a significant step in advancing the Continuing...
Occupational skills gaps in the automotive sector
The nature of automotive manufacturing is changing at a rapid pace – fundamental changes in manufacturing processes and methodologies, quality management, materials management and supply chain logistics have created increasing pressure for automotive component...
Empowering Youth for a Brighter Future: IYF and De Beers Group Celebrate Skills 4 Life Achievements in Limpopo
A Stakeholder Engagement event was held in Polokwane, Limpopo province, on 24 October 2023, where the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and De Beers Group collaborated to celebrate significant milestones achieved through their joint efforts in empowering the youth...
IYF CELEBRATES WOMEN IN TECH
SKILLS FOR SUCCESS IS CHANGING THE GENDER LANDSCAPE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Digital technologies have created new spaces for interaction and enabled new ways to connect, share experiences, work and build communities. It is estimated that by 2030 in Sub-Saharan...
Building Better Avenues From Education To Employment
THE DE BEERS GROUP AND IYF’S PROGRAMMES GIVE HOPE TO THE FUTURE OF YOUTH EMPLOYMENT The 15th of July is World Youth Skills Day, but for the De Beers Group and IYF upskilling the youth is a daily priority. The De Beers Group has been working closely with the IYF for...
Preparing Youth for the Modern Workplace
New Bridging Workshops Equip Graduates with the Skills Needed to Thrive Professionally On Friday, 26th May, IYF led the first of a series of comprehensive Workplace Readiness Workshops that address behavioural skills in the workplace to capacitate TVET students with...
New research set to change South Africa’s developing IT landscape in tertiary institutions
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) handed over a game-changing roadmap to the Department of Higher Education (DHET) in February this year, detailing the way forward in Strengthening Digital and IT in the PSET (Post-School Education and Training) System in South...
High Gear Research Report
In October 2020, High Gear conducted rapid research with automotive assemblers and component manufacturers, to identify the competencies that they demand most from TVET graduates. The identified competencies are informing High Gear’s strategies to align TVET course...
High Gear initiative tackles gender equity and social inclusion in SA’s automotive components manufacturing sector
Research undertaken to explore critical gender equity and social inclusion issues within the South African automotive component manufacturing sector has revealed commonalities in the experience of young women that can help industry organisations achieve the...
High Gear Best Practice Summary Guide
The realisation of the objectives of the South African Automotive Masterplan 2035 are dependent on developing the requisite skills within the automotive industry. Increasing South Africa’s contribution to global vehicle production to reach 1% of global output will...
Kholeka Nothando Ntuli
My name is Kholeka Nothando Ntuli, I was under the NAACAM/High Gear learning programme held in end of last year. I just want to thank you for the amount of work and effort you put into these programmes to help engineering graduates. I also wanted to inform you that I...
Gear up for South Africa’s Electric Vehicle Revolution
The International Youth Foundation’s engineering offshoot, High Gear, has been connecting electrical and mechanical engineering, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college students to the automotive industry for over two years now. The programme...
High Gear expands Work-integrated Learning in Durban, KwaZulu Natal
Through the Skills Programme, IYF has supported Elangeni TVET college students to access Work-Integrated Learning (WIL). Together with our industry association partner – NAACAM (the National Association of Automotive Component and Allied Manufacturers) - and IYF...
Africa: IYF, Google Equip Youth with Digital, Entrepreneurial Skills
three African countries, which has had an impact in providing them access to digital and entrepreneurial skills. Through its high impact training, IYF South Africa is making a substantial contribution to enabling young people with key skills to develop their...
Skills for Success Youth have access to digital skills and entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship is marked by job creation rather than job seeking and is one of the most sought-after career paths for young people. The entrepreneurial career path creates meaningful and rewarding opportunities for youth and is therefore a great way for our young...
High Gear expands Work-integrated Learning in Durban
Supporting TVET college students to access on-course Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) is an effective way to tie classroom theory to industry practice, helping students better see the relevance of what they are learning, while also supporting them to make industry...
Suggested Title of Programme Good News Story
Our MERL team has developed comprehensive systems to support the implementation of key project interventions while collecting relevant data for formative analysis. Key considerations ensured that project beneficiaries were not overwhelmed with data requests, and that...
The Power Of The Youth. The Power Of World
Youth month is a time to recognise, acknowledge and celebrate young people who made their mark and took a stand for their rights. It is this generation of young people that taught me that courage is required to follow through even in the face of uncertainty or the...
Interactive career experience platform launched to help engineering graduates connect to the workplace
High Gear – an initiative to strengthen the market relevance of the Technical, Vocational, Education and Training (TVET) college system by enabling greater industry involvement in course design and delivery has successfully launched its online career experience...
Automotive Component Sector Tackles Significant Skills Gaps
The inaugural High Gear Quarterly Skills survey conducted by NAACAM on the existing and likely future skills gaps has revealed that the automotive component sector faces a range of skills gaps across all occupational levels. The survey was administered by NAACAM, the...
High Gear Strengthening TVET System Resilience in South Africa
Through the course of 2021, High Gear experienced multiple challenges ranging from unprecedented CoVid-19 and civil unrest disruptions – It was indeed a difficult year plagued by delays, postponements and cancellations in the context of constantly changing schedules...
High Gear Report 2021-04
NAACAM and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) are the lead national partners of High Gear, an exciting initiative managed by IYF that is advancing South Africa’s public TVET college system. High Gear draws on industry knowledge and skills...
High Gear Report – 2021 Q3
Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African economy had already experienced two consecutive recessionary quarters - as a result, the COVID-19 pandemic further worsened the existing poor economic climate. Given the extent of the devastation, the...
High Gear – SETA Best Practice
With the rapid pace of technological change within the automotive sector, suppliers are required to speedily identify and embed critical skills to secure global competitiveness. On top of this, the realisation of the objectives of the South African Automotive...
Occupational skills gaps in the automotive sector: A key barrier to localisation
The nature of automotive manufacturing is changing at a rapid pace – fundamental changes in manufacturing processes and methodologies, quality management, materials management and supply chain logistics have created increasing pressure for automotive component...
Project Based Learning Engineering DemoKit
The culmination of months of steady progress on developing effective course upgrades came in our Project Based Learning Engineering DemoKit Review. During the quarter, IYF completed co-design work for these upgrades with TVET lecturers and industry skills consultants....