Learners urged to take a look at the education selections at TVET colleges
Learners urged to take a look at the education selections at TVET colleges
Blog Article
5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has encouraged learners to look at the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges for a important and feasible alternate for advancing their occupations.
The Deputy Minister was speaking all through an oversight visit on the post-school education and coaching (PSET) institutions while in the Western Cape this 7 days.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as important for job creation and youth skills development during the country.
The Deputy Minister visited the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, and also the Cape Peninsula {University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits aimed at examining the point out of readiness of better education institutions across the country, ahead of the 2025 educational year.
Through the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to choose pride in attaining artisan skills as they provide terrific entrepreneurship chances.
"I'm 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 along with other amenities. The Deputy Minister directed the institution to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily resolve the identified concerns.
The Deputy website 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 the Central University of Technology (CUT), at the Welkom campus.
Over the visits, the Deputy Minister continues to be accompanied by crucial senior officials from Higher Education and Training, and the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS).
The Deputy Minister’s dedicated Help Desk has also formed part here of the delegation, assisting with all higher education related queries on each visit.
The difficulty of funding and administrative difficulties faced from the NSFAS was in the spotlight over the Free State leg on the visits.
"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in orbit tvet college 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 tvet colleges open 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 expected to continue in other provinces, with North West higher education institutions being the next here on the list.
– SAnews.gov.za