Learners encouraged to investigate the education choices at TVET colleges
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 being a useful and viable option for advancing their careers.
The Deputy Minister was talking for the duration of an oversight visit to your post-school education and coaching (PSET) establishments from the Western Cape this week.
Gondwe explained the TVET colleges as important for job creation and youth skills development inside the country.
The Deputy Minister frequented the West Coast College Vredenburg Campus, and also the Cape Peninsula {University of Technological know-how (CPUT) Bellville Campus in Cape Town.
Gondwe's visits aimed toward assessing the point out of readiness of increased education institutions across the country, forward in the 2025 educational year.
Through the visit at West Coast College, she inspired learners to take satisfaction in attaining artisan capabilities as they supply good entrepreneurship possibilities.
"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 fears about student residences as well as other services. The Deputy Minister directed the institution to work with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily solve the determined problems.
The Deputy Minister’s visit website 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.
Through the visits, the Deputy Minister is 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 the delegation, assisting with all higher education related queries on click here each visit.
The issue of funding and administrative difficulties faced by the NSFAS was in the spotlight in the Free State leg with the visits.
"NSFAS needs to get its act together, in order get 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 website 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 read more next on the list.
– SAnews.gov.za