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Reforms to South Africa’s technical colleges keep failing students and employers: why?
By Stephanie AllaisIn many, throughput rates – how many students qualify in the expected time – are low. Some lecturers are under-qualified and under-resourced....
FG cautions Nigerians in South Africa, as xenophobic protests spread
By Folarin Kehinde
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has urged Nigerian citizens residing in South Africa to exercise caution and strictly adhere to safety...
South Africa’s Skills Emergency: Engineers, Artisans, and Finance Stars are Vanishing
South Africa is facing a rapidly escalating crisis as the shortage of critical skills worsens, that are threatening to stall growth across major sectors,...
Economist Dawie Roodt Urges South Africa to Close Half of its Universities and Open Technical Colleges
Efficient Group chief economist Dawie Roodt has suggested that South Africa should close many of its universities and start technical colleges instead. The main...
ViewPoint: The crash of South Africa’s building industry and the case for bringing back technical colleges
By Don MacRobert,The closure of technical colleges has resulted in chaos in the building industry, in which a large group of unskilled people, having...
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