Quality, not quantity, must drive FETs

The Department of Higher Education is pumping R2-billion into Further Education and Training Colleges (FETs) in order to increase the number of artisans trained and delivered to the market – but the underlying problem is not with the quantity of artisans, but...

Artisan training under the spotlight

Artisan training institutes and South African corporates in general need to seize the opportunity presented by the government’s large capital infrastructure investments, worth more than R1-trillion in the next decade, by ensuring that enough artisans are trained to...