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What we achieved
Key highlights:
▪ The Sasol Foundation continues to play a pivotal role in embedding technical subjects and courses, building
teacher and college lecturer capacity and providing the resources required for technical vocational education
to succeed in the South African education system. The Technical Education Portfolio focuses on TechnicalVocational Schools and TVET Colleges programmes that are designed to develop the skilled workforce of the
country, particularly in the STEM discipline.
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Our 14 TechSENet schools attained an average
of 82.7% pass rate for the 2022 academic year
with a 99% average for technical subjects.
These are low or no income schools in rural
and urban areas with limited resources.
36 teachers from the five provinces were
trained on vocational sections of technical
science and technical maths. Engineering
graphics and design teachers also received
laptops and got to practice using AUTOCAD
instead of manual drawing boards.
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24 engineering graphics and design teachers
from five provinces received software and
training on AUTOCAD as an introduction to
digital technology teaching.
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Two students who completed their College
Training from the 2022 cohort joined Sasol
as Technicians in Training for 12 months. The
remaining 60 students will also do their WIL on
completion so that they can qualify as artisans.
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The Free State Learner Skills competition
enrolled 40 schools and 3 800 learners
who competed in all nine specialisations to
prepare for the World Skills Championships.
Sasol Foundation has been preparing these
learners for the past five years. This shows
our unwavering commitment to investment in
education through a long-term view.
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Completed a four-day lecturer digital skills
training where 770 TVET College lecturers from
five provinces attended for engineering and
related courses. After this group of lecturers
completed training, more requests have been
received for other lecturer groups, including the
management teams at TVET Colleges.
1 100 and 880 teachers attended the 6th
and the 7th Annual Technical Teacher’s
Conference, respectively, in this last financial
year. The aim of the 7th conference was to
explore innovation in vocational education, the
place of simulations and 3D applications, and
skills development policies in South Africa .
Completed capacity building for 167 TVET
college lecturers to help them bridge some
of the teaching gaps to align with industry
requirements.
TechSENet Schools
The Technical Schools of Excellence Network (TechSENet) programme focuses on transforming ordinary schools
to fully-fledged technical/vocational schools. John Orr Technical High School was used as a pilot in 2012 for this
programme and now the network has expanded to 14 schools, after the partnership with Kagiso Trust. The
programme focuses on teacher support, learner support and technical workshop resourcing.
The 14 schools in the network attained very good results with an average of 82.7% pass rate. Most schools
improved from their 2021 results with four schools attaining over 10% improvement. Two of our recently
transformed schools improved by 17% and 42% respectively.
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