Performance Management Framework for TVET Lecturers in South Africa
Towards a preformance mangement framework for technical and vlcational eduation and training (TVET) lectureres in South Africa
This research aims to address the country’s challenges in job creation and skillsdevelopment by contributing to a well-aligned performance management and continual professional development system.
About
The mission of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges as institutions under the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) is to actively ‘develop capable, well-educated and skilled citizens’. In South Africa, there is much debate about the performance of the TVET colleges across the country. JET was commissioned to conduct a research study focusing on enhancing the relationship between performance appraisal and continuing professional development within the wider performance management of South African TVET lecturers. economic growth and development.
Objectives
This research aims to address the country’s challenges in job creation and skills development by contributing to a well-aligned performance management and continual professional development system. Emphasising the importance of TVET lecturers in national human resource development, the research underscores the critical role of lecturers in shaping skilled graduates, thus contributing to economic growth, and advocates for a fair accountability process through performance appraisal in TVET colleges’ performance management systems. The research positioned the development of a performance management framework for TVET lecturers in South Africa within a national human resource development perspective, making it clear from the outset that well-performing TVET lecturers, and by implication TVET colleges, are an integral component of national human resource development.
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