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• Component 3.1: Factors affecting the academic of marginalised youth in South African TVET colleges,
performance of TVET college students; which highlights the importance of the student voice and
experience. The TVET-RP is ongoing (2019-2023) and has,
• Component 4.1: Student Demand for TVET
inter alia, found that student demand for TVET colleges far
Colleges and
exceeds the capped enrolment totals allowed by DHET.
• Component 3.2: The under-utilisation of NSFAS It also found that NSFAS, despite expanding enrolment
in the TVET sector and the implications of access, is the single greatest institutional and systemic
NSFAS for poor students. factor that increases the multidimensional poverties that
affect TVET students.
Across all three components is a focus on the experience

percent in 2020. The proportion of students from private
3.1 Strategic partnerships to identify schools and other institutions remained constant while
learners and students, particularly the proportion of enrolments from quintile 1 and 2 high
from quintile 1 and 2 schools schools increased from 20 percent in 2020 to 25 percent
in 2021.
In 2021, the majority (66 percent) of our first-year students
came from quintile 3, 4 and 5 high schools, relative to 71

FIGURE 1:
QUINTILE SCHOOL PROFILE ASSOCIATED WITH FIRST-YEAR ENROLMENTS IN 2020 AND 2021

The majority of students enrolled in 2021 were from provinces, up from 29 percent in 2020 to 34 percent in
the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan area and Eastern 2021. The number of international student enrolments
Cape province. Expansion of our footprint in the country declined from 4 percent in 2020 to 3 percent in 2021 (see
was evident from the increase in enrolments from other Figure 2).

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