MONITOR PRIVATE COLLEGES

Sir,

The rapidly increasing number of colleges operating in the country is unprecedented. The mushrooming number of these colleges is due to the absence of government’s hard-line policy to regulate the operating licences of these institutions.

Unfortunately, this helter-skelter of the emerging colleges will impact negatively on the tertiary education system offered by the kingdom if government sleeps on the work because most of these colleges do not follow certain legal structures.
Social media is frequently abuzz with decorative adverts from such colleges seeking to validate their status as globally competitive institutions.

Lowdown

This has been going on for some time but the lowdown is that the admission procedures are a shocker. The admission requirements are far below those generally offered by the country’s institutions.

Usually these colleges accept a minimum of three passes in the following category; D, E. Conversely, English is not a basic requirement in these private colleges which is a subject that goes with territory in national tertiary institutions.

Seen from this fact, government is supposed to intervene and monitor these unregulated structures offering tertiary education because their number snowballs daily. This will in no doubt debase the country’s education quality if we watch it passively.

Concerned
The boom behind all this is that the proprietors are overly concerned about raking in a lot of millions of Emalangeni from the gullible candidates. For instance, now there are a number of teacher training colleges in the country which admit aspiring teachers using this poor requirement schedule.

At the end of the training programme, these graduates flock to the job market in search of available teaching posts and are approvingly granted the jobs without further testing them if they are competent enough to teach the pupils. From where I am sitting these colleges are a shortcut to the teaching profession hence we have a huge number of incompetent teachers whom we expect to churn out the best in pupils.

These teachers would definitely add the number of failures that schools record yearly. This is a serious cause for concern and we need our government to tighten the screws in a bid to regulate and monitor the number of private colleges that snowballs each and every day. Emakolishi nje sekwaba nguthela wayeka. This must come to an end because we need quality tertiary education and the strong urge to rake in a lot of money should not interfere with the government’s mandate of offering high level tertiary education.

Shabangu

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