Engineering Technology Education under the new Higher Education Qualification Framework

摘要

"It seems that no residential University of Technology is planning to provide for technician education" was a view expressed at a recent meeting of the Technology Programme Accreditation Committee at the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). This seems to be the prevalent thinking in the Universities of Technology (UoTs), or former Technikons. They seem to be planning to provide only the new three-year Bachelor of Engineering Technology (BET) degree, which will be the new benchmark qualification for professional engineering technologists.