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FET College Times ISSN 2076-7021 Volume 30 September 2012 the Official Quarterly WCED FET College Newsletter FET College Times ISSN 2076-7021 Volume 30 September 2012 The Official Quarterly WCED FET College Newsletter Inspired education and training at your local FET College IN THIS ISSUE: Page 2: Colleges get in gear with SA’s needs | From the Chief Director’s Desk Page 3: Strengthening relationships with local business chambers | Bridging the gap between industry and education Page 4: Stakeholder briefings with potential employers for the West Coast | False Bay College meets the NGOs Page 5: School Secretaries equipped to take the administrative lead! Page 6: Celebrating Student Achievements: False Bay College, Northlink College Page 7: Lightbulb fascination leads to glowing result | Inclusive Education: Hearing-impaired student excels | Top student beats the odds Page 8: Partnerships: College partners with the Navy and universities... | ...and a Norwegian College Page 10: South Cape College + PetroSA = Maths and Science Tutorials for schools | Public enterprises Career Exhibition hosted at False Bay College | Blackburn College, UK, welcomes False Bay College exchange team Page 11: Skills demonstration targets Parliament | Tourism students get to be tourists | ‘Sell-out’ for College Comedy! Page 12: The quest for sustained Quality Management | Green skills under the Boland College Green Brand Page 13: World-renowned jewellery designer inspires College of Cape Town students Page 14: Mandela Day - Dare to Care Page 15: Boland College expands its rural operations | Northlink launches ICT multi-media innovation | Northlink College launches its Learner Management System Page 16: ‘Most improved college in bursary allocations’ West Coast College runner-up | Inter-campus competitions have wide usage as institutional development stimulus Page 17: A new approach to Job Placement | Northlink College and DEDAT developing artisans in Western Cape Page 18: Work placement and Trade Test data Page 19: Integration of individual subjects practical assessments: a case study Colleges get in gear with SA’s needs hat exciting times these are for 3 and 4. Colleges are also rendering on trade-testing at Western Cape Wpublic FET colleges! Finally support to schools by offering the FET colleges over the past two years. all the cogs are being shifted into School Business Administration course. Finally, in Intellectual Debate a thought- place that will enable this massive Read the Mover and Shaker accolades provoking and perhaps challenging Editorial Team national public education and training of course graduate, Margaret Wild. summary of a case study that explores machine to service the socio-economic Further, we feature a selection of student the methodologies of integrated development needs of this country as achievers whose life-opportunities assessments. This is your opportunity to Editor: Keith Loynes never before. Further changes are have been given nothing short of a join in the discussion! An email address Rotating Assistant-Editors: imminent with yet another far-reaching ‘rocket-boost’ through their FET College is supplied for you specifically to make Jandré Bakker, Heinrich Bill before Parliament while the wheels studies. Campus Matters features a comments and suggestions or simply Robertson, Robert Daniels too are being oiled by massive state range of ground-breaking partnerships ask questions. A sincere word of thanks Language Editor: (most recently, National Skills Fund) and thought-provoking operational must be recorded for our contributors Dr Peter Merrington investment. It is clear that the course activities selected specifically from the who take the time and effort to carefully Design & Printing: is set for skills development initiatives many contributions received with the craft items for publication without the in 2013/14 in our public colleges objective of giving readers a glimpse assurance that it will be published. Your Blue Dot Ink such as never before seen. This vote of some of the innovations that define dedication and support are appreciated Copyright: WCED FET, Private of confidence by the highest levels top-performing colleges. We close and we hope to hear from you again by Bag X9114, Cape Town, 8000 of leadership must surely hold rich this column with an inspiring Mandela 29 October for the December edition South Africa, September 2012 rewards for South Africa. Day feature. In Policy and Operational of FET College Times! To our growing Shifts, we bring you news of expanded number of readers, if this is your first WCED FET Colleges Website In preparing the ground, colleges rural FET delivery, the harnessing time, welcome to the world of FET are focusing their attention on of IT applications to support college colleges. www.fetcolleges.co.za fostering an in-depth understanding performance, and some best-practice of the needs of employers in terms of features ranging from the use of inter- To our regular readers, welcome and Cover Photograph understanding and acting upon the campus college competitions as an enjoy this delightful volume of packed- training requirements that are expected instructional medium, to job placement, to-the-brim FET College inside news. To Mandela Day celebrations. of employees. The quest is not only work placement and some statistics all, happy reading. See page 13. to promote the employability of FET College graduates but also to equip Waiver these graduates in a manner that will Obituary see them emerging down the line as e record with sadness that Mr Kanku, the Jewellery Manufacturing student The views & opinions of contributors employers in their own right. See what Wwhose story was featured in the June edition of FET College Times (page 6), do not necessarily reflect those of Contributors are reporting in the Cutting has passed away. The editorial team extends its heartfelt condolences to his family. WCED Edge News items featured on pages FET College Times and the WCED accept no liability with regard to FROM THE CHIEF DIRECTOR’S DESK authorship and content of articles and photographs, and accept these he Academic Year is just about within the prescripts of standing labour as the bona fide contributions of Tover! Counting from 1 September legislation and the necessary collective correspondents. there are but five weeks before the agreement that will be required by examinations begin! All our combined unions. These actions themselves Contributors energies now begin to focus on this occur within the context of reciprocally centre stage activity where we are all signed protocols between the employers Monica Tshangana, called to account for the effectiveness of and their political representatives. As the teaching and learning year that was all college leadership has been kept Aasief Gaffoor, Heinrich Robertson, Zozo Siyengo, Chief Director: Further 2012. All that remains now in the lecture informed of the latest developments in Tina Little, Margaret Wild, Cheslyn Education and Training Colleges Johnson, Jandré Bakker, Minette rooms is for the wrapping-up. The big this regard, any employee can ascertain Kilian, Dr Chris Merts, Karin question at present is, ‘are you ready’? first-hand and through the appropriate role is inextricably linked to the ultimate Hendricks, Benson Mkize, channels updated information within relevance and effectiveness of our Adrian Bezuidenhout, Ivan There have been lots of expectations their respective institutions. colleges. As the planners begin the Swart, Johanna Coetzee, Wendy and speculations regarding progress preparations for the 2013 academic Adams, Esmarie du Plooy, Sharon being made on the migration of public These are unquestionably exciting times year, be assured that your work is Grobbelaar, Marion de Vries, FET colleges as a provincial competency for FET colleges. For an education appreciated. Lecturing staff (faculty), Ina Louw, Melanie Vermaak, to that of a national competency. This sector that is no stranger to change on your efforts to prepare your students Own Correspondent, process is referred to in the sector as a seismic scale, the public college sector to cope with assessments that they Theo-Chris Groenewald ‘function shift’. will no doubt take this latest wave in its will face during examinations is equally stride and emerge the better for it as long important. Always be mindful that the At this stage it can certainly be noted as we do not lose sight of the objectives. core business of any self-respecting Send contributions to: that administratively speaking much And what are those objectives for the educational institution rests upon the is happening. Certain principles have FET College sector? They are of course shoulders of its lecturers. Webmail: www.fetcolleges.co.za been established regarding personnel to ensure that large numbers of people FET College Times/Send Your Article implications. In the interim certain (and in particular the youth) receive the In closing, good luck to everyone with Advertising & Editorial matters: categories of staff can be expected benefit of vocational and occupational the forthcoming examinations. We look [email protected] to have their employer change from education and training opportunities forward to further improvements on Fax: 021 467 2487 Provincial Education Department to on a scale that impacts significantly last year’s performance and, to achieve Telephone: 021 467 2617 Department of Higher Education and and positively on employability and that, both the student and lecturer have to work hard and be a team. We are Closing Date: Monday, Training while other categories may employment rates. To all involved
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