Manamela targets reduced unemployment gap though improved skills levies [SOUND]

# Higher Education and Training minister, Buti Manamela, says the department’s budget aims to ensure education leads to employment opportunities. Addressing Parliament, Manamela said too many graduates struggle to transition into work, while employers continue reporting skills shortages. He stressed the need to improve the effectiveness of skills levies as industry and government play a bigger role in identifying workplace needs to ensure training programmes produce employable skills for unemployed youth: