Strengthening the National Certificate Vocational curriculum for FET colleges

Sector

Further Education and Training (FET)

Project budget

The maximum budget for this project is € 2 million.

Organisations

This project has been developed by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). The tender for this project expired on 25 October 2010. Nuffic has awarded this tender to CINOP, which has formed a consortium with the National Business Initiative (South Africa) and WITS University(South Africa).

Project description

South Africa's Further Education and Training (FET) college sector currently comprises 50 colleges. Each college has a main campus and several satellite campuses. In the post-apartheid transition phase, the former technical colleges and 'Technikons' (universities of technology) were subject to a large rationalisation process under which more than 200 colleges merged. The sector falls within the portfolio of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).

Building a strong public FET system in South Africa is critical to ensuring that the country produces adequate numbers of high quality, market-relevant middle to higher level skills. These skills are instrumental to increased economic growth and wealth creation, and to increase participation in the growth process by creating more jobs for young people.

This project focuses on the strengthening of DHET and selected FET colleges to develop and deliver gender-sensitive, labour market linked programmes. In particular, it aims to strengthen the quality and relevance of learning and teaching of the National Certificate - Vocational (NCV curriculum).

The project will focus on 12 key achievements, including:

• enhancing instructional capacity to teach fundamentals
• increasing work placement and internship opportunities so that they become part and parcel of the curricula
• developing a gender strategy.

More information

Visit the website of the Department of Higher Education and Training