The National Skills Fund (NSF) is fulfilling a crucial role in advancing technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges to becoming the first choice for post-school education and learning.  The NSF approved R50 million into KwaZulu-Natal’s Mnambithi TVET college, which has a main campus in Ladysmith and satellites centres in Newcastle and Ladysmith. The […]

The Richards Bay Technical Training Assessment Centre (RBTTAC) offers a range of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programmes such as fitting and turning, boilermaking, electrical studies and millwright training. The first student intake of its earlier contract with the National Skills Fund (NSF) was 120 students. RBTTAC was approved R45 million by the

The landscape of post-school education continues to evolve across the globe as nations unite for one goal: to partner and share best practices in education and research. A United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) science report states that one in four scientific articles produced around the world was co-signed by a foreign collaborator

Students are like trees; they need to be watered and nurtured to grow and have equal opportunities, says Didimalo Sereo following his participation at the World Skills Competition 2022 Special Edition (WSC2022SE) in Goyang, Korea, in October 2022.  The 23-year-old, fondly known as Gift, competed in the Information Technology (IT) Network Systems Administration category against

The success of the Centre of Specialisation programme is not in dispute, with all 350 artisan apprentices from 21 TVET colleges being awarded their trade test certificates. The 100% pass rate for the group was celebrated in November 2022 with the attendance of Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Blade Nzimande, who was joined

The Coastal TVET College’s tool and die jig project is another National Skills Fund-funded initiative training future artisans in the tool development industry over five years. These learners are trained in developing raw materials into fine products using different types of machines, such as lathes, milling machines, grinding machines, and jig grinders, in the workshop.

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) is working hard to meet the demand for 30 000 new artisans per year for the government’s strategic infrastructure projects. The National Skills Fund (NSF), in support of the DHET goal, allocates funding on a triennial basis to colleges, particularly those that enrol students from underrepresented groups. 

The results of a fruitful partnership between the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the National Skills Fund (NSF), which provides offenders with various skills programmes, were visible during a graduation ceremony for offenders from the Free State and Northern Cape that was held at Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley in June. The partnership dates

The Dynamic Youth Development Service (DYDS) is a skills development initiative supported by the National Skills Fund (NSF) with a funding commitment to implement a learnership programme for unemployed young persons with disability.  The NSF approved R20 million for DYDS for a two-year period, from April 2021 and ending in March 2023, for skills programmes

Fifty informal traders affiliated with the United Khula Informal Traders Association (UKITA) graduated in November 2021 from a two-year skills development programme sponsored by the National Skills Fund (NSF) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). The programme aimed to equip informal traders with skills to help them run their businesses more efficiently.