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about FET
What is FET?
Further Education Training (FET),
functioning as a band within the National Qualifications Framework,
builds on the foundation provided by the general education and
training band (ordinary schooling). By its unique position it plays
a pivotal role in integrating prior learning with continuing
education, and becomes a lever to higher education or the world of
work, including self-employment.
What can you learn at an FET
college?
When they were still technical
colleges, it was mainly hands-on skills in technical fields. Modern
FET colleges offer far more. The 18 technical colleges in the
Western Cape merged a few years ago to form six colleges with
multiple campuses, offering a wide variety of courses in many
disciplines.
- Engineering courses include
Electrical, Plumbing, Civil, Motor Mechanics, Fitting &
Machining and Boilermaking.
- Commercial courses include
Financial, Business or Marketing Management, Secretarial, Public
Relations and Human Resources.
- Other specialised courses
include Art & Design, Haircare & Cosmetology, Educare and
Tourism & Hospitality.
Visit the
college websites
for comprehensive information about courses offered and campus
locations.
Why choose FET?
- FET colleges provide skills
training which benefits students for life, is accessible to many
at a relatively low cost and achievable in a relatively short
time.
- Only a tiny proportion of
school leavers have the necessary school results to gain entry
into tertiary studies. This leaves thousands each year with
nowhere to go, and these contribute enormously to the social
problems experienced in South Africa, most notably poverty and
crime. FET colleges can even act as a bridge to higher education
: a student with inadequate matric marks for entering tertiary
studies can upgrade his entrance qualifications while gaining
valuable exposure to his field of study, possibly even earning
credits toward a technikon course, thereby saving time and
money.
- Too many young people are
sitting in schools with no hope of achieving a good matric pass,
or studying subjects which have no use to them in real life.
Those who wish to leave school after grade 10 can get an
education equivalent to matric or higher, but in a specific and
useful field.
- Tertiary study takes at
least three years and even after that graduates can spend years
trying to find work. FET studies are shorter, less expensive and
very effective in leading to employment.
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