Latest Issue
#7 – Skills 4 Employability
This issue 7 of the Training and Employment Magazine wants to be a platform for presenting views and opinions on the importance of skills in the development of the various Mauritian economic sectors, and triggering professional discussions which will serve to provide clear and factual information to enlighten the Mauritian population and eventually benefit all our youth without any exception towards continuously acquiring the right skills and up skilling themselves throughout their entire life towards lifelong employability and decent employment. Besides, unless a company adopts a continuous change management culture it will eventually become a dinosaur.
Latest Issue
#6. Skills for Sustainability
This 6th issue of the Training and Employment Magazine has as main theme skills for sustainability. When this theme was coined, Glasgow was preparing to host the COP 26 to bring member countries together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
#5. Challenges of Training and Employment post Covid-19
#4. Impact of leadership on the 4 IR.
Like it or not, Technology has been impacting on our lives since the beginning of time. We have witnessed how our lives have been changed with the first industrial revolution, the second industrial revolution and the third industrial revolution. They have taken their own times and made irreversible impact. Now with the rapid change of technology never experienced before, the fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) is much more than the production of powerful devices. Like the digital revolution, 4IR relies on technologies, yet they are technologies that have the capacity to perform what have until now been considered human tasks…
#3. 4th Industrial Revolution Our Future
The main theme of this third issue of the training and employment magazine is the 4th Industrial revolution (4IR), a follow up of the second edition which had as main theme ‘The fourth industrial revolution and its impact on our economy’. Whether we want it or not, we are already in that stage of the world’s development and if we want to practise the ostrich policy, we will not have time to prepare to face that incoming thunderstorm and we will be wiped out by competition. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday allayed fears of job loss due to technological development, saying the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ will change the nature of jobs and provide more opportunities (The Hindu, October 11. 2018).
#2. 4th Industrial Revolution
This issue offers a large coverage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) in line with the emphasis placed on it in the last two budgets. A clear perception of the 4th IR is provided and how it will turnaround our society (our behaviour and the labour market), our education and training system, as well as issues that need to be addressed in order to ascertain that our youth and our employees are properly equipped for Mauritius to thrive ahead in this disruptive technological environment. It also contains a critical analysis of the budget speech 2019/20 and its shortcomings by Mr Clensy Appavoo, CEO of Appavoo Group and the Senior Partner of HLB Appavoo & Associates…
#1. E-Learning
This issue places heavy emphasis on E Learning and its importance in today’s learning landscape as skills acquired become obsolete very rapidly in this unprecedented era of change of technology and traditional educational systems cannot keep pace. The Head of Legal African Guarantee Fund for SMEs discusses about how E Learning makes easier the way forward for law practitioners and another article discusses the Use of E Learning to increase access to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in African countries…
