This must be real Gugs,coming from you?lol,but now seriously Blade is the most 
all-over-the-show minister doing so much for the proletarians!

Boingotlo!
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Comrade Blade is really doing well in H.E 
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*Colleges vital - Nzimande*


*Mhlaba Memela, Sunday Times, 9 March, 2012 *

Qualifications obtained at Further Education and Training colleges 
should be on a par with university degrees, Higher Education Minister 
Blade Nzimande said yesterday.

Speaking at a campus in Durban, he said colleges should no longer be 
"glorified high schools".

"We can not have a situation where students study in the colleges for 
three years but, when they go to university, they are required to start 
afresh.

"We want to build these colleges as the first choice for our students 
not just an alternative [to universities]," he said.

Nzimande said qualifications earned at colleges were important to 
provide the skilled workers in short supply in the country.

He said his department was working hard to make it easy for youngsters 
from poor backgrounds to get an education and help fill skills shortages.

"The increase in registrations by 60%, over half in our colleges, means 
communities are starting to understand the importance of sending their 
children to these colleges. Colleges are vital in driving economic 
growth," he said.

Nzimande said students graduating from colleges had practical 
experience, while those from universities did not always have this.

In an effort to improve qualifications from colleges, Nzimande said his 
department had established relationships with some industries to ensure 
lecturers were exposed to workplaces.

"Lecturers at the colleges have never been in the workplace and they 
teach students only theory. That will now change as lecturers are 
exposed to the industries," he said.

The department would conduct an audit to establish financial and 
staffing needs for the colleges, which would no longer be controlled by 
provincial departments of education but by the national Department of 
Higher Education and Training.


*From: 
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/03/09/colleges-vital--nzimande*
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