Technical and Vocational Education Training colleges are crucial for South African youth to be educated, skilled and become entrepreneurs. This was said by Deputy Minister for Higher Education and Training, Dr Mimmy Gondwe, who was speaking during a visit to the West Coast TVET College in Vredenburg.
Gondwe is visiting a number of institutions of higher learning to assess the state of readiness for the 2025 academic year.
The deputy minister Gondwe says TVET institutions are key for any country to succeed. While often perceived as the “step-child” of education, TVET colleges also prepare students to become business owners.
“Don’t be discouraged if you cannot get into a university. There are TVET colleges and they offer you can even do courses like AI, so they offer future skills like robotics, coding you know. So TVET colleges really have something to offer and I encourage them to look at their local …