The higher education offerings dealing with the development of technicians andtechnologists are in a state of flux. Change is immanent and by 2017 the currentTechnician/Technologist qualification dispensation will evolve to the Bachelor ofEngineering Technology and Bachelor of Engineering Technology Honours programmes.Professional Engineering development will be undertaken at science programme-basedinstitutions such as the traditional universities, and also at institutions deemed to becomprehensive universities in the South African higher education arena. A comprehensiveuniversity may be seen as a mix between a University of Technology and the academicprogrammes offered by traditional universities. The envisaged change in the EngineeringFaculty of the University of Johannesburg could possibly see a narrowing of focus; fromthe development of professional registerable candidates of the Technicians, Technologists,and Engineers groups to only Technologists and Engineers. This is a significant departurefrom the strategy of the previous Technikon and the University of Technology.
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