FEATURE
Critical skills:
growing South Africa’s
bankers
With the banking profession becoming more competitive and sophisticated
by the day, training professionals in the sector has become essential for
employees to keep up with an ever-shifting global economy.
Graduates on the South African Reserve Bank’s 12-month Cadet Graduate Programme.
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n South Africa, a developmental state that has suffered
historical injustices, the professional skilling of the previously
disadvantaged is key to transforming the financial services
sector.
As part of a process to continue developing bank
professional skills in South Africa, the local banking industry –
institutions like BANKSETA, the Institute of Bankers (IOB), the
South African Reserve Bank and other stakeholders – have been
investing millions of rands in efforts to support and nurture future
skills needed to sustain the country’s banking sector.
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BANKSETA is regarded as one of the best sector education and
training authorities in the country. Over the years it has carried a mandate
to encourage banks to develop an active learning environment in the
workplace and promote transformation by ensuring that more women,
black employees and the disabled, continue to be professionally skilled.
As part of this mandate, BANKSETA offers post-matric learnership
programmes, a certificate in management development, masters and
executive short courses at a number of universities, an international
executive development programme aimed at preparing senior managers
in banks for executive roles.
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