Matriculants needs help.

Our matriculants seriously need help in what careers to follow, sadly it is late in their educational journey but it is true that most of them are not sure of what careers to follow or different careers that exist despite the obvious ones. Only if enough was done in schools regarding this the situation, I think we would be in a much better position.  Yes, one would say Life Orientation is covering this aspect, it is not enough.

If you check them trying to register at different institutions you come to realise they are not sure of what is it they are talking about, they know the title, but zip of the content (what fields are about). Lets take as an example, IT, most would say they want to study Inforamtion Technology, it is one of the broad fields of which most arent even aware of this fact. One is intending to study end user computing (eg Office Package) only to find he/she registers for Programming only to be frustrated later on in the year. They visit different FET Colleges as they are ecouraged by the government, its good but the information on what is being taught at the FET's is of uttermost importance.

FET's are offering NCV's as Nated (N1 - N6) courses are being phased out, (Thanks some Nated are still being offered) NCV Level 4 is horizontal with Matric. Meaning a learner with Matric will study NCV for 3 years but at the end of the 3 years he/she is still at NQF Level 4, his/her peers who went to Universties ot University of Technology will be at higher NQF  after completing a three year qualification. Only in the middle of the year when they learn this information they start dropping out of the FET's. I am not saying learners should not do NCV but I am saying we should help them with the information so that when they register they know what they are registering for.

Some choose careers because of its fancy name or good perks, as much as they have to look into this they should also do something they love and have passion for so that when they start working later on, they should be excited to wake up to go for work. I sure could say mouthful, FET's was just an example to say lets help our learners!
Learnerships is still one of the best alternatives and Matriculants can visit different SETAs, government Departments among others to check available Learnerships. If you are a Matriculant visit the library or ask your teacher more info on things like Learnership. You can also holla at me, I'll be glad to help.