BusinessLive reports that three technical and vocational education and training (TVET) campuses will open in 2017 to absorb some of the hundreds of thousands matrics who failed to get university exemption.  

The new campuses are Thabazimbi Campus at the Waterberg TVET College in Limpopo; Bambanani Campus at uMfolozi TVET College in KwaZulu-Natal; and Nkandla A Campus at uMfolozi TVET College in KwaZulu-Natal.  Speaking on Thursday at a briefing to outline post-school education opportunities available to matriculants, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said those who had completed grade 12 with a minimum of a higher certificate could consider studying at one of the 50 public TVET colleges.  He indicated that TVET colleges would accept 207,510 new enrollments in 2017.  Of the 610,178 pupils who wrote matric in 2016, 162,374 are eligible for bachelor degree admission and just more than 240,000 for diploma and higher-certificate studies.

• Read this report by Bekezela Phakathi in full at BusinessLive
• Read too, Over 500,000 post-school study places available, says Nzimande, at The Citizen

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