MOTHEO TVET COLLEGE... THE GATEWAY TO EMPLOYABILITY

a long-lasting strategic partnership that will respond to prevailing socioeconomic challenges that continue to plague our communities, particularly the youth. The aim is to foster development and innovation, and also to leverage on a pool of available skills offered by the College.

Successful partnerships include the SA-Navy, for Work Integrated Learning for students and industry placement for lecturers, and the Maastricht School of Management & Stellenbosch University Project for strengthening skills of TVET staff and students for optimizing water usage and climate smart agriculture in South Africa.

Linking to the Vision of Motheo TVET College, “The Gateway to Employability”, and the Mission to “Be a visionary and innovative provider of excellence, responsive to the needs of the community”, the programme qualification offerings mix of the College addresses the economic needs of its service area with the intention to be of more service to industry by producing the much-needed skilled workforce and qualified artisans.

The College has fostered partnerships with a spectrum of industries, government institutions and local and international partners who assist with skills development and where accreditation is not yet in place.

The former Premier of the Free State Provincial Government Ms Sefora Ntombela, accompanied by all MEC’s and HOD’s, recently visited Motheo TVET College to strengthen consensus on new areas of collaboration. The College and the Free State Provincial Government are working hand-inglove with the intention of building

Recently the College signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kreishandwerkers (KH) chaft of Germany. The purpose of the six-year partnership is to support the College towards the enhancement of demand-oriented training with a focus on the artisan trades to provide graduates with improved employment and self-employment prospects. Other international partnerships include Coleg Gwent (UK), West-Lothian College in Scotland, Warwickshire College Group in Lamington Spa (UK). The College also has an MOU with the University of Free State (UFS): Development Institutional Advancement for Technology, enhancement, research and personnel training and development, and with Northlink TVET College in Cape Town.

The College operates closely with SETAs such as Services SETA, MerSETA,

CHIETA, CETA, LGSETA, W&RSETA amongst others. Recently the College entered into a signed agreement with the MICT SETA to train and place college students to be technicians to build capacity and to establish computer labs.

Currently the College has been selected as a Centre of Excellence, it is an ICT Academy for two market leaders in the ICT Sector, namely Cisco and Huawei. Being an academy falling under these two companies allows the College to run certified courses that will enable registrants to be equipped with skills such as CCNA, IT Essentials, Internet of Things,

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Python Programming and 4G/5G.

The College aims to be an entity responsible for initiating and implement economic development projects within the Ocean Economy in the Free State.

Under the sterling leadership of Principal, Prof Dipiloane Phutsisi, Motheo TVET College has won numerous National and International awards. The College is an official member of the European Business Academy in Oxford in the UK since 2017. The College won the PMR Africa Golden Arrow Award in 2014 and Diamond Arrow Award (highest rated) from 2015 to 2022. The College received an International Quality Award for Excellence in Education from the European Business Academy in Lucerne, Switzerland in July 2017. The College also received ISO 9001:2015 accreditation through the British Standard Institute. 

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 051 406 9300

Email: marketing@motheotvet.edu.za

Website: www.motheotvet.edu.za

Address: 94 St. Georges Street, Bloemfontein, 9301