Vhembe tvet college online applications

It gives me great pleasure to present to you Vhembe TVET College message. Our task as Council is to
do oversight and monitor the activities to Council. Enjoy reading this message and let us build Vhembe
TVET College together. Our commitment to work with Tribal Council and Vho – Thovhele is good news.
The foundation for a better life has been laid for our students. In the spirit of new patriotism, we are rising
to the heights. Vhembe TVET College is filling with hope about the bright future that beckons.
The College has seven campuses (namely Makwarela, Mavhoi, Mashamba, Tshisimani, Thengwe,
Shingwedzi and Musina). The College offers NC (V), Report 191 Business Studies and Engineering
Studies. The College established an Entrepreneurship and Incubation Centre at Makwarela Campus,
which trains students to become entrepreneurs in Engineering. The College is working with SETAs such
as SSETA, PSETA, MQA, Bank SETA, Construction SETA, and Energy SETA to deliver quality teaching
and learning and skills programmes.

To provide quality technical and vocational education and training services and increase academic
achievement and success of students by providing adequate resources.
To have adequate infrastructure and systems in place to increase access and provide effective
services
to students.
To develop partnerships and maintain good stakeholder relations to increase the number of
students who
are adequately prepared to enter the labour market or further and higher learning opportunities.
To ensure continuous business excellence in terms of good corporate governance and effectual
management
of all college resources as well as information and data reporting.
To monitor and evaluate all college processes in terms of the TVET College Monitoring and
Evaluation Framework and report quarterly on college performance in this regard.
Our vision is to deliver quality assured and responsive programmes to our stakeholders.
Together, we can do more to promote teaching and learning.
Working together, we will build Vhembe TVET College to the highest level.
Lastly, Vhembe TVET College firmly believe that leadership diversity brings a wealth of experience that
should not be underestimated. We are at the advanced stage in terms of financial management, for the
past two years in succession, we got unqualified Audit opinion from the Audit General of South Africa.
We also have a special focus on financial management in our institution Vhembe

As a college, we will be observing a period of pride and gratitude of the journey we travelled
as an institution over 6 Decades. Our journey started in 1963 as Sibasa Ambag Bantu Skool
to Finyazwanda Trade Institute in 1985 to Technical College of Venda (Techniven) in 1991 and
ultimately Vhembe FET College in 2003. We have been privileged to witness the remarkable
revolution and evolution transformation of a foundation laid and built by various generations.
Vhembe TVET College is amongst the largest TVET Colleges in South Africa.
We are honoured to have served the Vhembe District for sixty years. Let us as a collective utilise
this opportunity to reflect on the journey travelled, its challenges and opportunities that we have
explored. During this period, we need to also extend tributes to those that steered this Ship and
kept it afloat. Furthermore, let us celebrate what we have achieved, there is a lot that we have
to celebrate. We acknowledge the continued support from external stakeholders that we have
enjoyed over the years. The support has bred strong partnerships that will continue to contribute
towards the success of the college and the community at large.
In the midst of the celebrations, I wish to encourage our staff and student component to work
hard and jointly produce competent industry leaders. Our vision it to continue to be an icon in
Technical and Vocational Education and Training of quality assured and responsive skills-based
programmes for lifelong learning. We pledge our continued commitment towards transformation,
institutional sustainability and ensuring academic excellence. We aim to equip our students with
leadership and service skills. We all have a role we can play in ensuring that Vhembe TVET
College becomes a College of first choice to perspective students. We pride ourselves in creating
an environment of disciplined freedom, refined culture, and boundless opportunities.
Higher education has a critical role it can play towards building South Africa’s young democracy.
Noble citizenship requires each of us to understand the issues our country is dealing with and our
individual responsibilities toward our country. In this sense, education can help to transform society
as a whole. We will achieve all our targets by observing our values of Excellence, Commitment,
Trust, Respect, Accountability and Collaboration. We are “Geared for Excellence” at Vhembe
TVET College.

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Programmes
Vhembe TVET College offers a variety of programmes under National Certificate Vocational (NCV) and NATED.
We offer the following fields of studies: Engineering Studies, Business Studies, Occupational Programmes and
Agricultural Courses. We also offer distance learning to cater for all youth and adults that can not be registered
to attend daily.
Vhembe TVET College offers courses under Business Studies which allows students to focus on specialities
such as Human Resource Management, Marketing, Accountancy, Finance and Hospitality Engineering Studies
gives students understanding on how to solve the most impactful of our problems. Vhembe TVET College offers
Engineering course that will assist students in constantly changing the world with innovations and solutions that
affect everyone’s life.
To enrol in the programme, prospective students
should have the following:
■ A year end school report for grade 9
■ An NQF level 1 qualification, OR
■ An approved bridging programme designed for
the specific purpose to access NQF Level 2, OR
■ A Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
assessment to meet basic requirements for
access to NQF Level 2
With both studies, the College offers 3-year courses
with each level making up 1 year i.e., Level 2 one
year, Level 3 one year and Level 4 one year.
For prospective students to be able to qualify for the
different courses under our NATED programmes,
there are specific admission requirements which vary
per programme.
Engineering studies:
A student must have a Senior certificate with at least
three instructional offerings which are applicable to
the course chosen OR N3 Engineering studies or
higher.
Duration for any Engineering course under this
programme is eleven weeks or Trimester per N-Level.
Examinations are written at the end of each trimester,
in other words in April, August and November.
A National Diploma is issued subject to the following:
■ A minimum of twelve subjects is taken with at
least three subjects on N4 – N6 Level, but no
more than five N4 subjects.
■ At least two N6 subjects that must have bearing
on the vocation of the candidate
■ Eighteen months of appropriate experiential
training.
Business studies:
A student must have a Senior certificate/N3 or Grade
12 for N4, N5 and N6.
Duration for course under this programme is a
semester of six months per N-Level. Examinations
are written at the end of each semester, in other
words in May/June and November/December.
A National Diploma is issued subject to the following:
■ A minimum of twelve subjects is taken with at
least three subjects on N4, N5 and N6 Level,
but no more than five N4 subjects.
■ At least two N6 subjects that must have bearing
on the vocation of the candidate
■ Eighteen months of appropriate experiential
training.