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Only 2% of all private and public TVET colleges have the facilities and capabilities to offer a practical component with their engineering studies, BUT a staggering 90% of the students that receives practical are employed.- Stats SA / / Employment figures released |
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Practical skills are crucial for engineering studies. Employers have expressed that graduates are well prepared in theory but lack the practical skills when applying engineering concepts in practice. With this recent industry drive, our own internal focus on practical integration to make our students more employable, we now offer a practical module for our main engineering study industries as an optional extra. Each practical module is designed to support the student in practically applying their theory thus increasing their employment opportunities and understanding of their work.
The long and short of it.
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Industry has expressed concerns around the lack of practical application in the nated engineering studies and the need of bringing back the practical components of the engineering studies.
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What can you do? The practical programs can be done on two levels, beginners level (done between N1-N3) and advanced (done between N4-N6)
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