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in possession of ABET diploma to gain admission into the Honours' B.Ed. programme to assure them of a career path; the need to provide educators with in-service training to improve their teaching skills and the need to evaluate the programme in a bid to make its curriculum more effective in addressing the socio-economic problems of the country.
Based on the findings outlined in the pages above the study concludes that:
i). The North West provincial ABET department should provide continuous professional development for its ABET educators to enhance their teaching practices and
ii). UNISA must revamp the curriculum of ABET Programmes to include more entrepreneurial and practical skills if its courses were to remain relevant to the socio-economic needs of South Africa.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Based on the findings the study recommends to the provincial department of ABET to re-think the use of continuous professional development programmes to re-skill adult educators teaching at the various ABET centres in the province. The University of South Africa should also transform the existing ABET certificate and diploma curriculum to be more relevant to the socio-economic needs of the country.
LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
The findings of this case study are based on qualitative interviews conducted with 400 adult educators in the North West province. Although the use of a case study allowed an in-depth study of the particular phenomenon it might have some limitations relating to generalization of the findings. The conclusions of the study should therefore be interpreted against the potential limitations as outlined above.
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