Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande said that under level 3 lockdown a maximum of 33% of students will be allowed back on campus, with final year students prioritised.
Cape Town - Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Blade Nzimande has announced the gradual reopening of the tertiary education sector from June 1.
Government envisages that students will gradually return to campus at various levels of lockdown. At level 4, only final year students in clinical training will return, according to the minister. Nzimande said the three-week delay in returning to campus will allow students who spent lockdown in other parts of the country to travel back to the province where they are studying. Permits will be issued to identified students to enable them to travel.
Nzimande said students returning to residences will form part of the 33% of students on campus under level 3, or 66% under level 2. According to the minster, a tentative academic calendar has been drawn up for TVET colleges."Guided by the principle to save lives and the academic year, the CET colleges will spend the rest of May 2020 preparing the central offices and the learning centres to be ready for safe return of staff and students", Nzimande said.
"SETAs have also committed to priorities skills development related to Covid-19 pandemic areas in support of the supply and demand of essential goods and services during Covid-19 period and beyond.""No student must be left behind," he said.
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