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Toward the end of 2011, four South African progressive research organisations with staff members steeped in the struggle against the erstwhile apartheid system’s education policies formed a consortium called the Education Policy Consortium (EPC). The EPC embarked on a five-year research project entitled ‘Building a Progressive Network of Critical Research and Public Engagement: Towards a Democratic Post-Schooling Sector’. It was understood that research which has an orientation to the wider political economy examining the intersection of the labour market, education and training requires systematic analysis including its limits and possibilities in the context of national and global development. In effect our approach was to provide insights for longer term policies and strategies and institutional interventions to build an enduring platform both for the genuine transformation of the present system and for its sustainability over time. Our primary concern revolved around the pervasive problems of unemployment, inequality and poverty and its relationship to education and training in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Vally, S., Motala, E. (2016). Employment, Democratic Citizenship and Education. In: Geo-JaJa, M.A., Majhanovich, S. (eds) Effects of Globalization on Education Systems and Development. The World Council of Comparative Education Societies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-729-0_2
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