Partnership with the private sector to benefit students

POLOKWANE – Capricorn FET College held a meeting with their partners and businesses at Bolivia Lodge on Tuesday morning in order to accomplish a Work Intergrated Learning (WIL) programme for their students. The purpose of the meeting was to outline the objectives of a workplace partnership between FET colleges and workplaces and to formally partner with employers to assist students with an understanding of the workplace in their chosen field of study and to build their capacity to apply college learning in the context of real workplace operation.

WIL is an umbrella term for any purposefully-designed learning programme that intergrates theoretical knowledge with authentic practice in a workplace. The purpose of WIL is to develop competence, the ability to apply knowledge and skills to the demands of the workplace.

James Mogale of the department of higher education and training said: “Partnerships with colleges and work industries could have a great impact in the country and work against lack of employment, especially for young people who have been to school and have no experience and practicals of what they studied when they finish school.

The programme is going to cover all industries and fields of work.

The programme also gives students a direction of the fields that they should be looking into and assists them in taking courses that they are good at and related to what they want to be when they finish college”.