Learners encouraged to examine the education solutions at TVET colleges
Learners encouraged to examine the education solutions at TVET colleges
Blog Article
5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has inspired learners to think about the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges as a useful and viable alternate for advancing their occupations.
The Deputy Minister was talking throughout an oversight visit to the post-school education and coaching (PSET) institutions in the Western Cape this week.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as essential for job creation and youth skills development within the region.
The Deputy Minister visited the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, plus the Cape Peninsula {University of Technology (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits directed at examining the condition of readiness of increased education institutions across the country, ahead from the 2025 academic year.
Over the visit at West Coast College, she inspired learners to get pride in obtaining artisan techniques as they provide wonderful entrepreneurship prospects.
"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 worries about college student residences together with other amenities. The Deputy Minister directed thekwini tvet college the establishment to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily solve the discovered challenges.
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 the Central University of Technology (CUT), at the Welkom campus.
Over the visits, the Deputy Minister is accompanied by crucial 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 problem of funding website and administrative challenges faced because of the NSFAS was while in the spotlight over the Free State leg on the visits.
"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in order to ensure that student allowances are paid read more on time with no delays. Delays cause serious challenges for learners; learners need allowances to check here 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 lephalale tvet college 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