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Year in Review: South Africa
Lecturer Capacity Building
TVET College Intervention
The Sasol Foundation made headway in the
investing the TVET Sector with a specific focus
on developing skills of the future.
Some of the programmes have been conceptualised
following a roadshow that the Sasol Social Impact team
undertook to understand the needs of the TVET colleges
regarding challenges presented by climate change and
the country’s energy crisis. An intervention framework
was designed to address the challenges and needs
of the TVET sector that were identified. Some of the
interventions are outlined below.
▪ 770 TVET college lecturers from five provinces
completed a four-day digital skills training lecture
in engineering and related courses. A survey was
conducted to identify the digital skills needs of
TVET college lecturers. Although some lecturers
were reluctant to participate, it was upon their
participation that they realised how much they did
not know. This affirmed the need for continuous
professional development of lecturers.
▪ 32 successful candidates were awarded the TVET
College Bursary in Electrical and Chemical Engineering
designed for three colleges, namely Gert Sibande,
Flavius Mareka and Nkangala TVET Colleges, in
partnership with Sasol Energy Business. This will be
a three-year programme where electrical engineering
students will get specialised training in solar power
installation and maintenance, while chemical
engineering students will receive specialised training
in hydrogen fuel technology. This programme helps
to ensure that the Sasol Foundation aligns with
critical business imperatives.
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A German training company,
Fosh Learning, was contracted in
partnership with DHET, to deliver an
integrated industrial project-based
TVET college lecturer capacity building
programme for 150 lecturers.
This project uses augmented reality to get
lecturers to design and make EduBoard
stands and inverters. Lecturers attended
virtually and had a week of face-to-face
practical workshops in Pretoria. The project
embraced a holistic methodology to provide
a comprehensive training experience for
the TVET lecturers. This approach aimed
to address various aspects of learning and
development going beyond theoretical
knowledge to incorporate practical skills,
real-life applications and industry
collaboration. The training programme took
a leap into the future, making the most of
gamified and virtual reality (VR) technologies.
By gamifying the learning process, the
lecturers found themselves in immersive
experiences encouraging critical thinking
and problem-solving skills and stimulating
scenarios like client interactions, planning,
and working out a cost estimate, giving the
lecturers a taste of real-world situations.
The VR technology allowed lecturers to step
into another world by being placed in virtual
environments that mirrored the realities
of their field. This safe space allowed them
to practice, make mistakes, and learn without
the potential risks and pressures of the
real world.
