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 like a important and viable choice for advancing their occupations.

The Deputy Minister was talking all through an oversight visit into the post-school education and education (PSET) institutions during 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 visited 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 toward assessing the point out of readiness of larger education institutions across the country, in advance in the 2025 educational year.

During the visit at West Coast College, she encouraged learners to get delight in buying artisan skills as they supply wonderful entrepreneurship opportunities.

"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 issues about tvet colleges open for applications student residences along with other facilities. The Deputy Minister directed the institution to operate with the Student Representative Council (SRC), to speedily take care of the determined concerns.

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.

Through the visits, the Deputy Minister has long been accompanied by key senior officers from Higher Education and Training, and the National Student tvet college courses without matric 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 orbit tvet college each visit.

The difficulty of funding and administrative issues faced through 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 check here 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 Deputy Minister's oversight is expected to continue in read more other provinces, with North West higher education institutions being the next on the list.
– SAnews.gov.za