ABSTRACT
Education and skills are viewed as equisential to any country’s socioeconomic development. Education, mainly higher education, is vital to the development of appropriate skills, attitudes and values for the capitalist workplace. Africa’s development is dependent on not only its natural resources, but also human capital that provides the skills in extracting, exploiting and processing the resources. Therefore, a highly skilled professional (HSP) workforce is essential to Africa’s path to prosperity and poverty reduction. A professional labour force comprises individuals who have higher levels of specialised training and have acquired competitive skills required by the labour market. Such skills are transferrable across borders because of their specialisation.
