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Namibia risks producing more graduates than the market can absorb if free tertiary education is not linked to employability and practical training, experts have warned.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a recent Sanlam Allianz discussion, statistician general Alex Shimuafeni said the country’s education reforms must prioritise skills development, job creation and economic diversification to ensure that free tertiary education delivers long-term benefits.<\/p>\n
This follows on the government’s allocation of N$663 million for…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibia risks producing more graduates than the market can absorb if free tertiary education is not linked to employability and practical training, experts have warned. Speaking at a recent Sanlam Allianz discussion, statistician general Alex Shimuafeni said the country’s education reforms must prioritise skills development, job creation and economic diversification to ensure that free tertiary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,1632,5759,6544,24390,9679,13939,4706,724,257,52821,7349,254,24344],"class_list":["post-212927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-focus","tag-free","tag-graduate","tag-job","tag-lacks","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oversupply","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tertiary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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