5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has encouraged learners to take into account the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges for a useful and practical different for advancing their professions.
The Deputy Minister was talking all through an oversight visit to your post-school education and schooling (PSET) institutions while in the Western Cape this 7 days.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as very important for job creation and youth skills development from the nation.
The Deputy Minister frequented the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, along with the Cape Peninsula {University of Engineering (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits directed at assessing the state of readiness of better education institutions across the country, ahead with the 2025 academic year.
Over the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to acquire satisfaction in attaining artisan capabilities as they provide good 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, students at CPUT expressed considerations about student residences and other facilities. The Deputy Minister directed the establishment to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily resolve the discovered troubles.
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.
Throughout the visits, the Deputy Minister has been accompanied by important 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 the delegation, assisting with all higher education related queries on each visit.
The difficulty of funding and administrative troubles faced by the NSFAS was during the spotlight over the Free State leg with 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 read more for their sense of wellbeing and dignity," Gondwe said.
Gondwe embarked on read more the state of readiness visits following a plan of action, announced by Higher Education and Training, Dr Nobuhle Nkabane at check here 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 letaba tvet college expected to continue in other provinces, with North West higher education institutions being the next on lephalale tvet college the list.
– SAnews.gov.za