/ 14 June 2002

Now the technikons strike back

The country’s skills development drive will be jeopardised if the government implements proposals to reduce the number of technikons. This warning is at the heart of the technikon sector’s vigorous counter-attack against the proposals, which aim to reduce the current 15 technikons to six.

”The proposed reconfiguration will lead to an erosion of the technikon sector at a time that technikon-type education is in great demand in our country,” says Professor Roy du PrÃ