DUT Joins Forces With Pax College To Address Skills Shortage In SA

This document is a news article from the Durban University of Technology (DUT) website. It reports that DUT has partnered with Pax College, a Durban-based FET college, to address skills shortages in South Africa through tertiary education and community development. The article states that the partnership’s Adopt-a-School initiative (launched in 2004) will be expanded to include DUT, where DUT IT graduates will be recruited to teach computer studies at impoverished schools, providing work experience for the graduates. It also notes that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on 17 August 2012 by DUT’s Vice-Chancellor and Principal Professor Ahmed Bawa and Pax College CEO Ms Brenda Govender, and that a banquet to celebrate the partnership was planned for 27 November 2012 at the DUT Hotel School, Ritson Campus.