Learners urged to check out the education alternatives at TVET colleges
Learners urged to check out the education alternatives 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 as a useful and viable alternative for advancing their careers.
The Deputy Minister was speaking in the course of an oversight visit into the post-school education and coaching (PSET) institutions from the Western Cape this week.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as vital for job creation and youth skills development inside the country.
The Deputy Minister frequented the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, as well as the Cape Peninsula {University of Know-how (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits aimed at evaluating the condition of readiness of bigger education institutions across the country, in advance from the 2025 educational year.
In the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to get delight in buying artisan skills as they offer fantastic entrepreneurship options.
"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], website and click here coding," Gondwe said.
At the second part of the visit, students at CPUT expressed worries about student residences and also other facilities. The Deputy Minister directed the institution to here work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily take care of the identified problems.
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.
During the visits, the Deputy Minister has become accompanied by critical 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 issue of funding and administrative problems faced with the NSFAS was within the spotlight in 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 tvet college courses without matric 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. capricorn tvet college
– SAnews.gov.za