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Ekurhuleni West Technical, Vocational, Education and Training College (EWC) is a public institution regulated by the FET Colleges Act no 16 of 2006, as amended. It was established in terms of the Further Education and Training Act, Act No .98 of 1998, declared as such by the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Education (Gauteng Province) in terms of a Provincial Gazette Extraordinary (dated 7 December 2001).

Ekurhuleni West TVET College is situated in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng Province in South Africa. EWC operates within a broad band and diverse communities and comprises of the following six (6) campuses: Alberton, Boksburg, Germiston, Kathorus, (in Katlehong/ Vosloorus/ Thokoza), Kempton (in Kempton Park) and Tembisa.

The name "Ekurhuleni" originates from the geographical and municipal areas (the Southern Service Delivery Regions [SDR]), namely: Germiston (as regional centre), Alberton, areas of Boksburg, Katlehong, Thokoza, Vosloorus and sections of Freeway Park and the Northern Service Delivery Region [SDR) namely Kempton Park (as regional centre) Tembisa, Edenvale, including Bedfordview and Primrose, in which the College is situated.

"Ekurhuleni" - means place of peace in Xitsonga. "Ekurhuleni" was taken from the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and "West" from the Western Belt within the Municipal area, where all the campuses are situated.

From The Acting Principal's Desk

Mr Peter Mudau - A/Principal

Staff Diary

January, 2021

2020 had been a hard-hitting year with COVID-19 throwing devastating moments in our lives. We lived our lives in a way which no one of us will never forget in the history of our lives.

When the country entered a total lockdown in the face of the pandemic, EWC and other higher educational institutions started a process of doing things differently. The College geared itself to ensuring continuity in its teaching and learning activities. Teaching practice at the college radically changed following the COVID-19 pandemic from contact lessons to using digital platforms.

What was apparent was that there was a 'new normal,' with all teaching and learning activities taking place with other means of teaching students. Academic staff had to rapidly prepare and capacitate themselves for remote teaching, which was hardly a new concept. Lecturers faced the double challenge of adapting to new techniques and methods. It was indeed business unusual, but both lecturers and support staff were on deck, ensuring that the core function of the college, which is educating, ran. Thank heavens, we thrived through.

Now that we are in the new year, we need to re-engineer and recreate the way we operate the core business process, with the goal of improving our teaching and learning effectively in a way which will be befitting the changing world of today, that is moving towards digitalization. There is no better time than now where we need to chart a vision for how education and training can emerge stronger from this global crisis and propose a path for capitalizing on education's newfound support virtually.

At EWC, we are going to harness and take advantage of technology to help with educational continuity and deploy education technology to power up our college in a way that meets the teaching and learning needs of students and lecturers. As part of the teaching and learning intervention, we take pride in the fact that the college is implementing a Learning Management System that is geared to assisting students to access their lessons online. This is a great tool to use to enhance students' learning ability in this digital era. I urge you to encourage students to make use of that web-based or online digital platform to enhance their learning capacity.

H.E. Luccock once said, "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it." That means that teamwork works better. I therefore encourage that we all work together for the betterment of the college. Where it is deemed necessary, please extend your help with ideas which will help the college become modest, give advices.

To read the whole message, please click here: Principal's Message.

Please Note:

There are no accommodation facilities available for students at EWC.

Bursaries

Special Note: Bursary funds are limited, and not all students will be successful. Bursaries are not guaranteed and they are subject to approval and availability of funds. An application for a bursary is not a guarantee that the bursary will be awarded. Class fees must still be paid and will then be refunded in the event of a bursary being awarded.

ISO Policies

EWC's ISO Policies are available upon request. For Information Security purposes they are classified as Internal and not Public, and therefore not displayed on the Website.

• ISO 9001: 2015
• ISO 18001: 2007
• ISO 14001: 2015
• ISO 27001: 2013

Issuing of policies will be upon request to the Quality Manager, who will only issue such policies after a confidentiality statement has been signed.