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BusinessLive reports that Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has directed the SA Qualifications Authority (Saqa) and the quality councils to clean up their act in a bid to overhaul the vocational college sector, which has been beset by myriad problems including policy incoherence.
Universities tend to be better run and equipped than their vocational college peers, which are riddled with inadequately trained lecturers, woeful infrastructure and a lack of funds. Last Friday, the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) published a draft policy document on technical and vocational training institutions in the government gazette. Therein Saqa and the quality councils were called upon to work on policy formulation and co-ordination to clean up the sector’s image and turn it into a viable alternative for students. As a first step, they have to agree on a common and cohesive policy framework in terms of standards for vocational colleges. This comes as the IMF has again warned that SA’s labour market skills mix is inadequate for the country’s economic needs
- Read this report by Khulekani Magubane in full at BusinessLive
- Read too, Frustration over operational issues at country’s colleges, on page 5 of Sunday independent of 15 January 2017
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