Overseas experts to assist college
The aim of the organisation is to assist industries and transfer general management, professional and technical skills to institutions of their choice.
WHITE RIVER- White River Technical College (FET) has been chosen among hundreds of other vocational institutions to receive professional assistance from a Netherlands-based non-profit organisation, PUM, which comprises of senior experts formed by retired teachers.
The aim of the organisation is to assist industries and transfer general management, professional and technical skills to institutions of their choice.
PUM’s representatives assist in over 70 developing countries so far with 3 000 volunteers scattered all over and four of them in different instutions including education, hospitality, clothing and beer making in the country.
“By next year we will send experts from our organisation to this college to help improve the engineering courses.
The collabaration will last until 2016, but even after that we will continue to contribute our skills and knowledge to the betterment of education at this college,” said PUM’s Mr Henk Brouwers.
Brouwers has been in the country for two weeks and spends his days assisting in upgrading the curriculum of the college and to connect the college with companies in the water sector.
“We helped the college to form relationships with a number of water suppliers around the province including the Bushbuckridge Rand Water Company, Mbombela’s Water and Sanitation Unit and other departments with the hope that they will provide practicals and internships for students from this college,” he said.
He also suggested that the college install an advisory board, and forge relationships with communities and other companies.
