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Professor Stephanie Matseleng Allais is Professor of Education and Research Chair of Skills Development at the Centre for Researching Education and Labour in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand. She holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, awarded in 2007 for her thesis examining the South African National Qualifications Framework. Her research focuses on the sociology and political economy of education, with particular attention to the relationships between education and work, skills development, national qualifications frameworks, education policy, curriculum, and education and development.

Prior to her current role, Allais served as a fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She has previously held the position of Director of the Centre for Researching Education and Labour. Allais is the author of the 2014 book Selling Education Out: National Qualifications Frameworks and the Abandonment of Knowledge, and her doctoral thesis was published as The Rise and Fall of the NQF: A Critical Analysis of the South African National Qualifications Framework. She contributes to academic discourse through publications and research on vocational education, technical and vocational training systems, and the implementation of qualifications frameworks.