Learners urged to investigate the research solutions at TVET colleges
5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has inspired learners to consider the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges to be a precious and feasible different for advancing their occupations.
The Deputy Minister was speaking all through an oversight visit towards the post-school education and training (PSET) establishments inside the Western Cape this week.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as vital for job creation and youth skills development within the state.
The Deputy Minister visited the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, as well as Cape Peninsula {University of Technologies (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits targeted at examining the condition of readiness of increased education institutions across the country, forward of the 2025 academic year.
In the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to just take pride in buying artisan expertise as they supply great entrepreneurship prospects.
"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, students at CPUT expressed considerations about student residences as well as other services. The Deputy Minister directed the institution to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily resolve the identified concerns.
The Deputy Minister’s visit to the here 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.
In the course of the visits, the Deputy Minister has become accompanied by essential 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 of here the delegation, assisting with all higher education related queries on each visit.
The issue of funding and administrative more info difficulties faced with the NSFAS was within the spotlight throughout 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 read more of action, announced by Higher Education and Training, Dr website 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