FASSET ANNUAL REPORT

Rethinking skills development and training for the future

in skills development and training today, with the view of making an impact in the future. Under this theme, we address the following: • New ways of learning and teaching; • Tertiary education going online even in the most remote institutions; • Expanded curriculum to ensure future efficiency; • Collaborative thinking; • Coaching and mentoring during Covid-19; • Progressive skills development and training landscape and facing the challenges – with a focus on achieving our targets. From an operational point of view, we talk about adapting to the online environment; and re-imagining the future of the financial and accounting services sector in South Africa. Mindful of previous concerns around slow progress in launching programmes that are responsive to the 4IR, and with the lessons of the year under review in this report; FASSET stands poised to face the future with a true recognition of what is needed to close the skills gap in the technological and financial services area.

”FASSET promises to provide the most effective skills development interventions through active engagement and pragmatic leadership relevant to the needs of the financial and accounting services sector.” The highlight for this financial year has been about overcoming obstacles and challenges fuelled by the Covid-19 global pandemic. This pandemic has affected all industries and as a SETA we faced our own challenges, around how we innovatively make quality education and training available to our stakeholders. The unexpected spin-off of the pandemic is that it catapulted us into embracing the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and future thinking. We learned very quickly to operate and deliver services through on-line and digital systems. FASSET’s focus remains enabling training that is relevant, futuristic and accessible to ordinary people and through this year’s annual report theme we hope to bring this thought across while we subconsciously instil our key message and mandate of enabling skills development and training under challenging times. In this report FASSET demonstrates why it is important to think ahead and invest

FASSET Annual Integrated Report 2020/21

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