South Africa’s 50 public TVET colleges were created in 2002, in terms of the TVET Act 98 of 1998, with the merging of former technical colleges, colleges of education and training centres into 50 TVET colleges. The reason for the merging of various former institutions into 50 larger TVET public colleges was to combine smaller and weaker colleges into stronger institutions, which would result in economies of scale and create capacity within colleges to teach more students and offer a wider range of programmes. The table below gives a summary of the major developments in the TVET college sector…

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