Learners urged to examine the education selections at TVET colleges

5th February 2025
Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, has inspired learners to evaluate the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges being a beneficial and feasible different for advancing their professions.

The Deputy Minister was talking throughout an oversight visit on the post-school education and teaching (PSET) establishments inside the Western Cape this week.

Gondwe described the TVET colleges as essential for job creation and youth skills development within the country.

The Deputy Minister frequented the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, as well as Cape Peninsula {University of Technological innovation (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.

Gondwe's visits aimed toward assessing the point out of readiness of greater education institutions across the country, forward in the 2025 educational year.

Throughout the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to just take pleasure in getting artisan competencies as they offer wonderful 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, college students at CPUT expressed fears about student residences together with other amenities. The Deputy Minister directed the establishment to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily solve the discovered difficulties.

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 more info College and the Central University of Technology (CUT), at the Welkom campus.

In the visits, the Deputy Minister has long been accompanied by critical senior officials from Higher Education and Training, and the coastal tvet college National Student western tvet college 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 and administrative problems faced through the NSFAS was inside the spotlight through the Free State leg in the visits.

"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in order more info 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 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 tvet colleges open for late applications 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