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1 in 7 “vocational matric” TVET students graduate on time. Why?

Government says most students enrol in the national certificate so that they can receive NSFAS funding, and never complete the course

The National Certificate Vocational (NCV) qualification offered by TVET colleges is a three-year course targeted at learners who left school at grade 9, 10 or 11 with a school leaving certificate. The NCV is a vocational alternative to a matric certificate.
The available data suggests that NCV students aren’t performing very well:

60% of students drop out before graduation;
only one in seven students graduate on time;
pass rates are 60% or lower.

Government believes the low percentage of people who graduate within the prescribed three years (or “throughput”) is driven by the fact that most people who enrol in the programme already have a matric certificate, essentially “repeating” a qualification they already have.
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