Business breakfast at Sekhukhune TVET College
MOTETEMA– Over a 100 business stakeholders including Sector education and training authority (Seta) municipalities, SMMEs, Sekhukhune Development agency (SDA) Mining Qualification Authority (MQA), banks, sectoral departments including the Department of Education, Health and Labour and college alumni gathered at Sekhukhune TVET College’s CS Barlow Campus Hall on the Thursday 04 of May to engage at what it is called business round table breakfast.
According to Abicky Kgolane, Sekhukhune TVET College Assistant Director Marketing and Communications, the aim of the business breakfast was to nurture the industrial relations and partnerships and to reassure key stakeholders of the critical role they play in the college’s WIL (Work Integrated Learning) placement in preparing the graduates for the workplace.
Kgolane’ words were echoed by the College Principal, Tebogo Kekana, who reminded those in attendance that the event was taking place under the theme, “Pathways from education and training into the workplace”.
Principal Kekana further said that they have carefully chosen the theme in their quest of ensuring that every workplace should also be converted into a learning place.
In his speech it was worth noting that despite fewer industries around the Sekhukhune district, the Sekhukhune TVET College managed to scoop a bronze award nationally competing with urban colleges across the length and breadth of the country in WIL placement programme for the year 2021/22.
The Mining Qualification Authority reiterated their commitment to support the College program and told stakeholders that WIL are purposefully designed learning programmes to integrate theoretical knowledge with practical work, predominantly to those doing Diploma, National Diploma, Higher certificates or Advanced Certificate as a Vocational qualification in line with Higher Education Qualifications Sub-Framework (HEQSF) stand to benefit more than the WIL programme.
In ensuring the continued support to the college, the Wholesale and Retail Sector Education and Training Authority (W&RSeta) representative announced their partnership with the college to build a new skills centre in Groblersdal town, which is currently beginning to benefit the students because workshops are already functional with students attending classes at the centre, and told the delegates that official grand opening will take place this year in September with the President Ramaphosa handing over the multi-million rand worth facilities to the community of Sekhukhune.
The glittering event culminated in a campus tour to orientate and expose delegates observe the college readiness to deliver quality education and training by taking them through the college facilities including the practical workshops, centre of specialisation in carpenter and joiner, computer labs, business simulation and centre for entrepreneurship rapid incubator of the college.
