Matriculants urged to make use of SA’s 26 public universities
Matriculants have many ways of studying further if they know what steps to take‚ according to Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande, who said the country’s 26 public universities would provide access to about 197,400 new entrants this year. These include SA’s three most recently opened universities‚ the Sol Plaatje University in Kimberley‚ the University of Mpumalanga in Nelspruit, and the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University outside Pretoria. Nzimande emphasised that the government is focusing on providing scarce skills‚ including in the engineering sciences‚ animal and human health sciences‚ natural and physical sciences‚ and teacher education — hence more than 60,000 of the available university places being earmarked for those areas of study. He strongly advised students to also apply for vocational training at TVET colleges‚ noting that three new campuses at Thabazimbi‚ Nkandla and in rural Zululand will open their doors this year; 207,510 new places will b...
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