Learners urged to examine the study solutions at TVET colleges
5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has inspired learners to evaluate the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges like a precious and practical substitute for advancing their occupations.
The Deputy Minister was talking all through an oversight visit into the post-school education and training (PSET) institutions in the Western Cape this week.
Gondwe described the TVET colleges as essential for job creation and youth skills development inside the region.
The Deputy Minister frequented the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, and also the Cape Peninsula {University of Technological innovation (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits targeted at examining the point out of readiness of higher education institutions across the country, ahead on the 2025 academic year.
Over the visit at West Coast College, she inspired learners to just take pleasure in buying artisan expertise as they supply fantastic entrepreneurship opportunities.
"I am very encouraged by what I'm seeing at TVET colleges, I believe they are the future of this country. TVETs are producing artisans with much needed skills [and] also offer opportunities for learners to acquire future skills, such as robotics, AI [Artificial intelligence], and coding," Gondwe said.
At the second part of the visit, college students at CPUT expressed fears about college student residences as read more well as other amenities. The Deputy Minister directed the establishment to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily take care of the click here recognized concerns.
The Deputy Minister’s visit to the Western Cape, follows her recent visit to higher education institutions in the Free State where she visited Goldfields TVET College and website the Central University of Technology (CUT), at the Welkom campus.
In the course of the visits, the Deputy Minister has actually been accompanied by important senior officers from Higher Education and Training, and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS).
The Deputy Minister’s dedicated Help Desk has also formed part of the delegation, assisting with all higher education related queries on each visit.
The difficulty of funding and administrative worries faced via get more info the NSFAS was from the spotlight over the Free State leg of the visits.
"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in order to ensure that student allowances are paid on time with no delays. Delays cause serious challenges for learners; learners need allowances to eat and to buy hygiene products. This is important for their sense of wellbeing and dignity," Gondwe said.
Gondwe embarked on the state of readiness visits following a plan of action, announced by Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane at the special meeting of the Post Education and Training sector held in January 2025, to establish the state of readiness for the 2025 academic year.
The Deputy Minister's oversight is click here expected to continue in other provinces, with North West higher education institutions being the next on the list.
– SAnews.gov.za