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The role of higher education
Approximately 652 869 students were enrolled at higher educational institutions during 2011. Almost 65.4% of these students were black. The GHS reports that proportionally this group is still underrepresented. Only 3.5% of Africans aged 18 to 29 years were studying, as opposed to 14.9% of Indian/Asian individuals and 20% of the white population in this age group. Only 3.8% of the coloured population was studying during 2011.
Professor Theo H Veldsman, (Head of Department of Industrial Psychology and People Management, Faculty of Management, University of Johannesburg) told Management Today; “The youth is the future of any country. Locked in them is the full potential to imagine, realise and sustain a desirable future, better and different, for all. This implies that their
potential needs to be identified, developed and utilised in order for them to make a chosen, desirable future a reality. But at the same time, opportunities have to be created to empower our youth to make that desirable future a concrete reality. Hence the critical triangle of potential, opportunities and future needs to be dynamically configured, aligned and managed.
Though the youth is the future, there is a crisis with respect to youth worldwide. Globally, the youth is the group with the highest level of unemployment – in the region of 50% because of permanent, structural and cyclical, economic causes. In many cases, this unemployed youth is relatively highly educated and present a time bomb ticking away which may implode societies and countries if they do not have a real stake in the future and see their place in it.
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