Dr. Blade Nzimande, South African Minister of Higher Education and Training gave a budget speech on May 26th outlining changes to higher education, specifically in mining.
The over-arching vision we are developing is that of an expanded, effective, coherent, integrated, differentiated, but highly articulated post-school system and responsive, comprising all the institutional types falling under our department: universities, colleges, adult education centres and the levy-grant institutions (the SETAs and the NSF) as well as the various regulatory and advisory institutions.