The Siyaphambili Website: An interactive platform to track South Africa’s post-school qualification attainment

Abstract

The Siyaphambili website is a product of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) post-school education and training research project at the University of Cape Town and was funded by the Kresge Foundation. SALDRU and UCT participate in Siyaphumelela ("we succeed") which supports South African universities' ability to improve student learning and academic success.Inspired by the Lumina Foundation’s Stronger Nation interactive website, which tracks American qualifications beyond high school, this website provides a platform to track qualification attainment in South Africa. The graphs on this website are based on analysis of publicly available StatsSA data. The tables containing the values shown in the graphs are downloadable in Excel format.A strong motivator behind this website is the need to share information and create awareness about our country’s skills needs. Goal 2030 provides a reference against which to measure year-on-year progress in qualification attainment. The project team recognises that South African post-school qualifications information is available, but not in an interactive format. This website exists to create such a platform to support policymakers and the general public to identify how South Africa can achieve its ambitions.