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ABET stands for Adult Basic Education and Training and is aimed at providing uneducated South Africans with the skills necessary to enhance their quality of life. ABET learning begins at the grade 1 level and continues through to grade 12 with matric certification at the end of the course. The course is accelerated but is designed to meat the unique needs of each learner. The more time you spend studying the quicker you can complete the course. ABET provides a facilitator, not a teacher, who is there to assist the learner in the learning process. Added value courses that will further improve a learners’ ability to function in a working environment can also be provided.

The Adult Basic Education and Training programme teaches a learner basic reading, writing and maths skills. Basic viewing skills are also a part of the course and refer to a learners’ ability to interpret the written word as well as images and respond to them. The written word or images can come in a variety of forms of media from television to newspaper and magazines. These viewing skills are taught from the first level right through to the fourth level of the course. The skills are especially important to the testing and examination phase of the Adult Education and Training programme as questions and references need to be interpreted correctly to enable the learner to answer questions.

Imagine for a moment that you are unable to read or write. We take picking up a pen and writing our own names for granted and hardly stop to think about the millions of people who do not have basic writing skills. These people form the poorest section of the population group in South Africa and they often do not have the means to pay for any education. There are also limited resources in the form of teachers, classrooms and teaching aids in the country. It is up to big business in South Africa to take up this cause in educating as many people as possible and ensuring a better future for the country as a whole.

You need to learn basic maths skills to perform the most basic tasks in society. Without the ability to read numbers you cannot know what items cost and whether you have the right amount of money to make a purchase. Being able to add and subtract will ensure that you always receive the right change when you are shopping. More complicated calculations such as multiplication, division and fractions will enable you to enter into credit agreements and understand how interest works. All these skills will help you have better control of your finances and prevent people from taking advantage of you.

You can use adult writing classes to learn to read or to improve on your current writing skills. Having a good vocabulary helps a person express themselves better so that they are better understood. A good vocabulary comes from reading a number of books that will give you better use of the English language. To be able to attend an adult writing class you must first be able to read. An adult writing class will also assist you in proper letter formation. This begins with holding your pen or pencil correctly so that your writing flows and is not stilted. It is no use being able to write if your hand writing is so bad that no-one can make out what you have written.

Once people are able read a language, teaching basic writing skills is the next step in the process of achieving literacy. Most of us were taught to read and write in grade one. However, many people did not have access to a school or any education under the Apartheid government. This has left us with the legacy of an adult population group who have no literacy skills whatsoever. The current government has made it a priority that every South African can read and write and has rolled out the Adult Education and Training programme. Centres have been built or converted from existing structures so that people from every walk of life will be able to have easy access to an education.

Is your company registered with the appropriate SETA and are you fulfilling their requirements regarding skills training within the workplace? You can offer your staff members basic training through an Adult Basic Education and Training Course and begin doing your bit to ensure that South Africa has a literate and skilled work force. An Abet facilitator will come to your premises and assess the level of education of your employees and then submit an education plan that is unique to your employees’ and companies’ requirements. The basic training will also take place at your premises for convenience and time efficiency while your employees are being educated.

Abet orientated short courses are aimed towards training individuals practically to enable them to succeed in a job environment. These include adult basic education and training courses such as basic maths and literacy skills. Once an individual has completed the most basic courses he or she can move on to achieving skills in business communication and which will assist them in better communicating with clients and colleagues within the working environment. These and other skills that can be obtained through Abet short courses will enable an individual to achieve a higher job status that he or she formerly would no have been able to fulfil.