Promote and ensure quality of education and training in the construction sector through systematic, logical and comprehensive research in achieving the NSDS targets including CETA’s strategic objectives.

The key purpose of research is to strategically determine interventions in achieving construction sector goals. Provide advice to stakeholders and inform policy makers on all matters relating construction. Furthermore, it serves as a performance guide on our NSDS indicators with a view of developing the Sector Skills Plan (SSP) and the integration of Service Level Agreement (SLA).

1. Priorities and facilitate workplace Learning
2. Promote continuous learning in the constructions Sector
3. Interrogate research on current state and future development of the construction Industry
4. Benchmark and provide world class sector skill development
5. Promote participation of Non paying levy enterprises (NGO’s, CBOs and Co-Ops).
6. Identify Learning opportunities in the constructions Sector.

Is to have a broader sector contribution in the review of the current SSP and SLA and reformulation of the SSP for 2006-2010. Outlined below are some of the guidelines to facilitate the development and fine tuning the strategies that can be followed in drawing up the research agenda and items on the Agenda.

CETA will publish its own research report. Articles and papers are to be published in the CETA Website and Columns Magazine. While CETA actively participates in local and international conferences, a number of events are envisaged to be organized by CETA.

In some instances, CETA will outsource a research project or part thereof to a research Agency. A notification of such project will be done through the release of the terms of reference on the CETA Website and by expression of interest from individuals and other research agencies on the CETA Database.

Research agencies will be required to submit research proposals (based on the specific terms of reference). These proposals are then evaluated by CETA in terms of Quality, Pricing and Equity and Experience criteria.

Postgraduate Students are encouraged to consider CETA Research Agenda when selecting research topics. In case where there is commonality between personal research and CETA research projects, CETA can offer the following Support: