COLLEGES are facing acute funding, human resources and infrastructure problems that are threatening their viability.The sector includes technical and vocational education and training colleges, as well as community education and training colleges.The newly introduced community education and training colleges emerged from the merger of public adult learning centres.The problems besetting the sector will likely make them a hard sell to prospective students as institutions of choice, as envisioned by government as part of its plan to ease pressure on universities.The white paper for post-school education and training envisages expanding enrolments at colleges from about 700,000 to 2.5-million by 2030. The National Development Plan states that the college system is not effective, is too small and has poor output.Department of Higher Education and Training director-general Gwebinkundla Qonde said colleges had to grapple with both financial and social pressures.In addition, the R6bn in st...
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