Learners urged to check out the education options at TVET colleges
Learners urged to check out the education options at TVET colleges
Blog Article
5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has inspired learners to look at the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges to be a beneficial and feasible substitute for advancing their occupations.
The Deputy Minister was speaking in the course of an oversight visit on the post-school education and training (PSET) establishments within the Western Cape this 7 days.
Gondwe described the TVET colleges as important for job creation and youth skills development within the state.
The Deputy Minister visited the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, plus the Cape Peninsula {University of Engineering (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits aimed toward evaluating the point out of readiness of bigger education institutions across the nation, in advance from the 2025 educational year.
During the visit at West Coast College, she inspired learners to choose pleasure in attaining artisan capabilities as they offer great entrepreneurship options.
"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 facilities. The Deputy Minister directed the establishment to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily resolve the here identified challenges.
The Deputy Minister’s visit to the Western Cape, follows her recent visit to higher education website institutions in the Free State where she visited Goldfields TVET College and the Central University of Technology (CUT), at the Welkom campus.
During the visits, the Deputy Minister continues to be accompanied by key senior officials from Higher Education and Training, and the National here 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 issues faced with the NSFAS was during the spotlight throughout the Free State leg in the visits.
"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in order to ensure that website 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 click here 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 expected to continue in other provinces, with North West higher education institutions being the next on the list.
– SAnews.gov.za