Hon member Mageba, you will remember that not long ago we had a conference on national higher education here, where we brought together all the different stakeholders in education - we invited universities, students, staff members, lecturers, and university and college managers. The most important resolution taken at this conference - no, there are two - was that the institutions of higher learning must know that their main objective is to make the lives of the students easy while they are studying at these institutions.]
We want student-centred institutions.
Into yesibili enye esayisho ukuthi siyazi yebo nokho ukuthi abafundi bethu uma bephuma ezikoleni okwamanje njengoba kuhulumeni sisazama ukunyusa izinga. Abanye babo abalungiselelekile kahle. Kodwa-ke futhi sasesithi akwenele nje ukuthi silokhu sikhomba abafundi ngenjumbane.
Zona izikhungo Zemfundo Ephakeme kufanele zizibuze ukuthi, uma ngabe sithola lolu hlobo lwabafundi, thina siyizikhungo sizilungiselela kanjani ukukwazi ukubhekana naleyonto. Ngaleyo ndlela ngicabanga ukuthi lezi zinqumo zizohamba indlela ende ukubhekana nalento oyishoyo bab'uMageba, ukuthi senza kanjani, ukuthi abafundi impilo yabo yenziwe ibelula, nanokuthi bathathwa kanjani ezikhungweni Zemfundo Ephakeme, nanokuthi bangena kanjani kwimikhakha eyahlukene njengoba ubeka nje. Ngiyabonga Sihlalo. (Translation of isiZulu paragraphs follows.)
[The second issue we mentioned is that we know that there are still no jobs for school leavers, but the government is in the process of improving the situation. We are aware that some of these students are not well catered for. We also said that it is not appropriate to always blame the students.
The institutions of higher learning should also ask themselves what they are going to do to face that challenge when these learners come to their institutions. In that way, I think, these resolutions will go a long way in facing the challenges you have mentioned, hon Mageba - how to implement this, how to make the students' lives easy while studying, how they are going to be admitted to institutions of higher learning and how they can access different levels of tertiary education, as you have just mentioned. Thank you, Chairperson.]