a) (i) Public Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges have a number of enrolment intakes within an academic year. Headcount enrolments in public TVET colleges across the nine provinces as at 21 August 2015 are tabulated below. This excludes headcount enrolments for Engineering Trimester 3 N1 – N6 programmes, which will only be available on 30 October 2015.
Total Headcount Actual students enrolled as at 21 August 2015 |
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Province |
NC(V) |
NC(V) |
Engineering |
Intro N4 - N6 |
Other Programmes |
TOTAL |
|
N1 - N3 |
N4 - N6 |
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Eastern Cape |
5 600 |
15 066 |
10 294 |
4 959 |
29 880 |
2 646 |
68 445 |
Free State |
1 721 |
5 273 |
10 380 |
4 760 |
24 744 |
1 851 |
48 729 |
Gauteng |
8 426 |
18 303 |
38 059 |
18 122 |
52 234 |
4 983 |
140 127 |
KwaZulu-Natal |
9 800 |
21 365 |
20 880 |
10 259 |
43 898 |
10 255 |
116 457 |
Limpopo |
9 839 |
16 538 |
19 622 |
7 450 |
32 181 |
1 044 |
86 674 |
Mpumalanga |
4 590 |
6 912 |
9 133 |
3 299 |
9 270 |
119 |
33 323 |
North-West |
3 405 |
6 628 |
9 886 |
3 293 |
14 554 |
1 017 |
38 783 |
Northern Cape |
731 |
1 537 |
3 686 |
269 |
6 814 |
756 |
13 793 |
Western Cape |
3 887 |
10 920 |
11 403 |
3 057 |
25 391 |
13 369 |
68 027 |
National |
47 999 |
102 542 |
133 343 |
55 468 |
238 966 |
36 040 |
614 358 |
Data source: Weekly Enrolment Monitoring as at 21 August 2015.
(ii) Universities have a number of enrolment intakes within an academic year and will be submitting their 2015 enrolment data to the Department on 30 November 2015. The university headcount enrolment target for the 2015 academic year is 1 020 000.
b) The preliminary headcount enrolment targets for the 2016 academic year are as follows:
(i) Public TVET colleges: 829 000
(ii) Universities: 1 035 000
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