Western Cape Business 2020 edition

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False Bay TVET College
A gateway to employment, entrepreneurship and higher education.
About the college
With 688 000 students enrolled in 2017, Technical and Vocational
Education and Training (TVET) colleges are an important avenue to
post-school education and vocational training and are crucial to job
creation, economic growth and the future prosperity of the country.
False Bay TVET College has five well-resourced campuses in
the Cape Peninsula that collectively have an annual enrolment of
around 11 000 students. While not the largest college, False Bay has
consistently been recognised as one of the best TVET colleges in
South Africa for over 15 years.
Along with its services to our youth, communities and diverse
industries, False Bay TVET College has strong ties and strategic
partnerships with employers, government departments, the SETAs,
representative industry bodies and both local and international
educational institutions. These partnerships enable us to leverage
resources and opportunities that give our students not only
affordable access to quality training and jobs but to life skills,
work experience and cultural enrichment.
funding fee-free education for
the majority of TVET students;
the SETAs spending over
R500-million on bursaries and
placements at TVET colleges,
universities and universities of
technology; the Department
of Higher Education and
Training (DHET) funding 12 new
campuses and colleges; and the
DHET supporting 14 universities
to develop programmes for
improving TVET lecturers’
qualifications.
Ten reasons for our success
1. Ideal location: Five campuses located in the
communities of Muizenberg, Mitchells Plain,
Khayelitsha, Westlake and Fish Hoek are easily
accessible, allowing students to commute from
anywhere in the Peninsula. In response to
demand, the College is set to double
its enrolment and add two more
specialised campuses: a 6.5-hectare
mega-campus in Mitchells Plain
that will serve as many as 10 000
students and the Swartklip campus
located at the former Denel munitions
testing grounds, which will offer stateof-the-art
artisan-related programmes to
3 000 students a year.
2. Benefits of investment: The TVET sector has recently
attracted heavy government investment, which is
rapidly improving the access to and quality of TVET
qualifications. These investments include the NSFAS
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