Angelique Wildschut (DPhil Political Science) is a senior research specialist in the Education and Skills Development (ESD) research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. She completed her DPhil at the University of Stellenbosch in 2011. Her thesis focused on the attrition of female medical doctors from the South African medical profession. Her more recent work has continued to draw on the sociology of work and professions literature, but extends related conceptual frames to study the world of work more broadly and a wider range of occupations. She remains interested in the perpetuation of structural inequalities in the world of work and its relation to occupational description.
To produce artisans for the future South Africa should study its past
Sep 26, 2016 05:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
South Africas government knows that artisans are essential to future growth and job creation. Thats what prompted the countrys Minister of Higher Education and Training to declare a decade of the artisan. The campaigns...
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