Contemplating the future of work and recognising the need for green skills for just transitions and cultivating knowledge and skills that are currently not yet included in the skills system.

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The Green Skills Project responds to the need for more proactive, concerted and coordinated efforts to analyse, plan for and develop green skills for South Africa, with a focus on the post - schooling system.

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Case studies investigating local / place based social ecosystems for skills are being developed in sectors and contexts where sustainability challenges are high, such as agriculture and fisheries, maritime, oil and gas. 

Downloadable Report: Skills Ecosystems Research Summary

In South Africa, there is a burgeoning need to prepare margionalised youth to take advantage of the growing green economy. This is a collaborative project with UNICEF Green Learn2Earn Programme.

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The Sustainability Commons is a space where ideas and technologies for sustainable development can be tested and explored. 

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Sustainability scientists suggest that rates of change between fast, non-linear environmental changes, and accompanying social changes are ‘out of sync’. Just transitions require people’s participation and meaning making in and across diverse epistemic communities. 

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The Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Chair in Environment and Sustainability Education has explored since 2016 (and earlier) methods, processes and frameworks for evaluation to more strongly support learning and transformation towards social justice and environmental sustainability.

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Skills programmes and providers are now being evaluated like businesses - with simple, countable inputs and simple, measurable outcomes apparently achieved in linear, predictable steps, but are not reflectively interrogated to enable learning.

Downloadable Report: Re-thinking Evaluations of Skills Programmes

Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 research units comprising of ELRC, NALSU and Community Engagement, were awarded a Research Chair to focus on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) in a SETA Environment.

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