VOCATIONAL TRAINING CAMPUSES DISCONTENT
Students to stage national college shutdown
Vocational training students protest over poor infrastructure, unqualified lecturers and massive certificate backlogs
Vocational training students have vowed to shut down the country’s 50 technical and vocational education and training colleges. On Wednesday, the students cited poor infrastructure, the ban on political groupings on campuses, unqualified lecturers and massive certificate backlogs as the prime reasons for the nationwide standoff with the government. A total shutdown will affect the colleges’ registration process, which began on Monday. South African Further Education and Training Student Association president Yonke Twani said students took the resolution to shut down campuses on December 8 2016 after the Department of Higher Education and Training had failed to respond to their complaints in the past five years. "We have been engaging the department since 2012 to work together with us to address these issues because we did not want to see anarchy on our campuses, but the department have been giving us very foolish responses," said Twani.
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