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Youth employment and skills development program

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Youth employment and skills development program Youth employment and skills development program - South Africa Is our education system teaching learners how to shoe horses when we are driving cars? With more than 10 million unemployed and a backlog of 3 million houses... are we training for the needs of the people and the country?  Educate for the needs of today Matric results are not a reliable barometer of education quality  We propose a solution by combining three “problem areas” and transforming them into “opportunity”. The three key issues that we face in Africa are that of poverty, unemployment and the huge backlog of affordable homes. Currently there are 800,000 graduates that are unemployed in South Africa.  This means that our universities are producing a significant amount of unwanted skills for the needs of industry and our country. This prompts the questions: - Does our higher educ...
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Educate For Problem-Solving, Not Factories - Forbes

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Educate For Problem-Solving, Not Factories - Forbes Job Creation - moladi Quick show of hands: How many of you actually enjoy doing homework? That’s more or less what I figured. (I don’t see anyone with their hands raised.) A 1948 U.S. survey showed that the typical high school student spent three to four hours on homework … per week. But as America raced into space during the 1950s, a pro-homework movement took off, in part, due to fears that students weren’t keeping up with their counterparts in the Soviet Union. The stacks of homework have continued to climb, by more than 50 percent since 1981 , but the additional problem sets don’t seem to be helping much. A new research paper suggests that if you can do basic subtraction, you’re probably a better mathematician than the majority of U.S. community college students. That’s discouraging, especially in light of lagging education statistics . Perhaps more troubling is that the extra homework load we subject our students to—...
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JOB CREATION starts at school - moladi

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JOB CREATION starts at school - moladi  Job creation starts at school Job creation starts at school Maslow hierarchy of needs - Food and Shelter - Link Maslow hierarchy of needs   moladi proposes to build two new classrooms per school to teach “Food and Shelter” - Link “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein.  Albert Einstein DO NOT use mathematics as yardstick to instil a mind-set of success or failure or clever and stupid in children. We might even produce bad children by boring them with incompetent teachers teaching silly subjects We have 800,000 graduates with no jobs - South Africa is producing skills we do not require – For every lion we need an amount of buck – if we have to many lions we will have no buck (balance of nature) South Africa need skills to plant food and build homes, a 2.1 million backlog - Housing generat...
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Housing construction costs in Yemen: Affordability & Purchasing Power - Middle East News

Housing construction costs in Yemen: Affordability & Purchasing Power - Middle East News : The substantial problem of a housing shortage is becoming an enduring feature in Yemen. All the same, the response to housing needs was hasty. Construction projects were executed using inappropriate and costly construction and design practices resulting in low-quality housing, causing further escalation in construction and housing costs to prices beyond the financial reach of the majority of the population in Yemen. A report by Dr. Basel Sultan.Improving the construction and housing sector is essential for several reasons. First for economic reasons, the performance of the construction & housing sector has a considerable influence on the overall economy where it contributes seven to 15 percent of the Gross National Product (GNP). Secondly, for social reasons, because housing is a basic human need. Third, for environmental reasons in order to reduce the consumption of resources, especially...
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Brick and Mortar vs. Injection Moulded Construction System - moladi

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Brick and Mortar vs. Injection Moulded Construction System - moladi moladi   Construction Process - Video Link Disrupting the Mould DISRUPTING THE MOLD   The inefficiencies of moulding a brick or block in a mould then tasking an artisan to lay them. Then chase the walls for water and electrical services. Then relying on another artisan to plaster the walls. Depending on the skills and ability of artisans to produce a house vs. casting a house in a mould employing unskilled workers – eliminating the need to chase and plaster, in a day, at a known cost. This we refer to as the moladi   "injection moulding construction process".  Future of Construction - World Economic Forum Brick production: Pollution and Carbon emissions - CO2  Brick production: Pollution and Carbon emissions - CO2  Molding or Moulding Process: Molding or moulding is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold ...
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What is the cost to 3D print a house?

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What is the cost to 3D print a house? What is the cost to 3D print a house or rather the "walls" of a house? What is the cost to 3D print the walls of a house? Whenever there is a post regarding 3D printing of homes, we are tagged by friends and colleagues to respond to the advantages of moladi vs 3D Printing. We therefore want to make it quite clear that this post is published purely to summarise our take on the topic and to have the ability to reference these questions and statements without having to repeat what we see as inherent issues associated with the 3D printing process of houses. All of the numbers used for 3D printing cost purposes are assumed, as these cost are not readily available for the purpose of this cost example. We would invite any 3D printing entity to help with the actual numbers to take any guesswork out of the cost estimation. First 3D printing post in 2017:  3D Printing a house or is it in reality - 3D Printing Walls?    - Link The de...
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