The Banking Sector Education and Training Authority has developed occupational qualifications to address the growing need for formal qualifications related to cybersecurity in South Africa, says Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande.
The Banking Sector Education and Training Authority has developed new occupational qualifications to address the growing need for formal qualifications related to cybersecurity in South Africa.
“A training programme in cybersecurity was implemented and recently the SETA also started to train high school students on skills for the future which include coding, software programming and data science,” he said. Dedicated funding has been allocated to IT-related skills and some programmes that include data management, Cobit 5 and analysing data.Nzimande said his department has also partnered with US-based networking company Cisco and Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to update the existing TVET colleges curriculum with industry demands in the digital skills area.
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