Centre of Specialisation is a department within a public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college campus dedicated to training, in partnership with employers, successful, quality artisans in one or more of the priority trades in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of the SIP projects and other strategic projects.
This goal is to be attained through the provisioning of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations’ (QCTO) trade qualifications (‘apprenticeships’) using a South African adaptation of the dual system approach. Both quality standards and quantity targets are to be set for each trade which are to be attained over the lifespan of the Programme.
The idea of a Centre of Specialisation can be applied more generally to non-trade qualifications and to institutions other than TVET colleges, but this is not further explored.
This goal is to be attained through the provisioning of the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations’ (QCTO) trade qualifications (‘apprenticeships’) using a South African adaptation of the dual system approach. Both quality standards and quantity targets are to be set for each trade which are to be attained over the lifespan of the Programme.
The idea of a Centre of Specialisation can be applied more generally to non-trade qualifications and to institutions other than TVET colleges, but this is not further explored.