‘Ultimately, we’re stronger when we have one common vision’
‘There’s nothing as fulfilling as helping learners attain the academic goals that they’d never even thought of attempting’
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Blade Nzimande is working towards creating community-based colleges, but South Africans shouldn’t expect fresh buildings to house those institutions.
The state’s ‘scarcity list’ is misleading, its analysis faulty and its data selective and in parts wrong.
Blade Nzimande has defended public technical colleges, saying that the private sector needs to ensure colleges are offering what they need.
Principals have been given a year to fix their severely flawed administrative systems.
Infighting in the FoodBev Seta has prevented the payment of stipends, amid claims the training authority is refusing to honour its contracts.
The plight of a Limpopo technical college is no exception, experts say "many are unable to cope".
Revamping vocational training will achieve little in rural areas unless it is linked to job creation.
Blade Nzimande hopes his white paper on post-school education and training will help millions of young people "out of the doldrums of poverty".
The Limpopo education department has urged matriculants to ensure the institutions where they want to study are registered.
Recently reported problems with the issuing of certificates are being sorted out.
Angry students say the higher education department’s failure to issue qualification certificates is blighting their futures.
The leaking of exam papers is a perennial problem in the FET sector, causing severe financial and academic problems.
What has become of this policy, which aims to offer a second chance at education success?
The Chris Hani Baragwanath Nursing College has been closed indefinitely because of student protests, the Gauteng department of health said.
They are the only hope for further education and training for those who cannot go to university.
Support for students on many levels is needed to improve South Africa’s many colleges.
Ill-conceived, fanciful proposals will not improve South Africa’s education system.
Unrest over poor governance and management at FET colleges is growing.
Mystery surrounds the public funding agency’s reasons for suspending its chief executive.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has plans to turn students and lecturers nationwide into information technology "natives".
Violent demonstrations are sweeping through the country’s FET campuses as students protest against bad management.
The minister’s budget-vote speech traversed competing priorities.
Proposed changes to occupation-directed training suggest a multifaceted approach to improve its workplace relevance.
Parliament’s discussion about the financing of SA’s universities and skills development sector begs the question: What is at stake? The answer: A lot.
Blade Nzimande is correct to highlight the sector as crucial for the country’s development agenda.
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/ 10 February 2012
Until South Africa gets this crucial aspect right, it cannot compete successfully in the global arena.
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/ 3 February 2012
If we were able to rise to the occasion of football’s greatest spectacle, surely we should be able to focus the same energy in improving education.
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/ 20 January 2012
Improved curricula and better-qualified lecturers are needed to ramp up standards and perceptions of FET colleges.
Education minister’s proposals will achieve nothing in our neoliberal environment.