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Gauteng City Region Academy (GCRA)
Discover GCRA, the Gauteng City Region Academy, dedicated to empowering Gauteng's youth through bursaries, internships, learnerships, and skills programs, fostering a skilled and ethical workforce for the region. Join us in shaping the future of Gauteng.
About Us
The Gauteng City Region Academy (GCRA) is responsible for facilitating the availability of a pool of skilled talent for both the public service and the broader economy of GCR through empowering the youth of Gauteng. Its work supports the province’s two critical priorities, namely the skills revolution and building a capable, ethical, and developmental state. It derives its strategic direction from the Provincial long-term strategy namely Growing Gauteng Together 2030 (GGT2030).
The GCRA helps the youth of Gauteng as they transition from school to the world of work. Its programmes start when the youth are in school up to when they enter the labour market. The programmes include:
* exposure to the world of work through career guidance and information as well as supporting multi-certification
* the bursary programme which supports the youth from Gauteng school as they access PSET institutions
* workforce development which supports the youth as they enter the labour market either for employment or entrepreneurship
* public sector capacity building
* exposure to the world of work through career guidance and information as well as supporting multi-certification
* the bursary programme which supports the youth from Gauteng school as they access PSET institutions
* workforce development which supports the youth as they enter the labour market either for employment or entrepreneurship
* public sector capacity building
Bursaries
Discover GCRA, the Gauteng City Region Academy, dedicated to empowering Gauteng's youth through bursaries, internships, learnerships, and skills programs, fostering a skilled and ethical workforce for the region. Join us in shaping the future of Gauteng.
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Workforce Development
Through partnerships and collective efforts to improve the potential economic outcome of the youth, the GCRA supports and facilitates interventions that contribute to the development and growth of the current and the future workforce of the GCR. It supports learnerships, apprenticeships, skills programmes, internships, work placement for experience, work integrated learning, and entrepreneurship programmes.
Career Guidance
The GCRA delivers career guidance services to all the learners in Gauteng schools, with a priority accorded to no-fee paying schools, although not excluding other schools. Our career guidance services encompass different elements, including information about careers and higher and further education services, guidance towards subject choice in preparation for careers, exposure to different careers through employers and employer representatives, education, support, etc. While it means different things to different people and serves different purposes depending on their needs, the overall aim is to help (young) people prepare for their careers and succeed in these careers.
Public Service Training
The GCRA is mandated to train the Gauteng Public Service. This is referred to as building the capacity of the State. The GCRA has facilitators that travel to all corners of the province to train public servants on a variety of subjects towards improving service delivery.