Teta partners Belgians to plug skills gap

THE TRANSPORT Education and Training Authority (TETA) has entered into a skills development partnership with the Centre for Excellence in Industrial Maintenance (CEMI) in Belgium. The project, initiated by TETA after a fact-finding mission to Belgium and supported by Belgian consul Raymond Nazar, is aimed at filling a middle management skills gap in industrial maintenance. Twenty six TETA stakeholders and educators from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape are currently undergoing a week’s intensive training in the basics of maintenance management. Eight will then be chosen to go to CEMI in Belgium at the end of February for a further 80 hours of training. On their return, they will train the rest of the initial group as maintenance management trainers who, as a multiplier effect, train others in maintenance management ensuring that there is a transfer of skills and a pool of accredited trainers.