Fet Colleges

‘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’

Your chances of finding or creating work are increased

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.