TRIPLE E TRAINING HOLDINGS

June 2011 -Triple E Takes Training to Tremendous Heights

Every month Triple E Training hosts a group of Professionals at their Guest House, Nellie’s Place, on the West Rand. Muzi Mthembu, Triple E’s ABET and FET Training Manager, trains these adults, normally a group of 18, to deliver ABET and/or FET Programmes.

The aim of this ABET / FET training is to empower facilitators to be business units, running their own education and training businesses. Furthermore Triple E Training’s policy is to empower local facilitating agents in every area that we are contracted for ABET / FET Programmes. Facilitators are empowered to continue working within the ABET and FET field if they no longer supply Triple E directly.

In order to truly empower them as agents, we take full responsibility for all the requirements of the ABET / FET facilitating agents. Once the potential agent has been assessed as competent in his/her field, all agents are trained against the national ABET Practice unit standards, as well as the life skills needed to run their own ABET / FET agencies e.g. Financial, budgeting, administrative skills etc. Many of our agents have or are currently completing:

117870: Conduct targeted training and development using given methodologies; and

117871: Facilitate using a variety of given methodologies.

Muzi facilitates an interactive and extremely busy training session where all group members are expected to prepare, present and participate fully in discussions. Only after their portfolios of evidence show competence in all ABET and FET facilitation aspects, will the learner-facilitator be contracted as suppliers in this field.

This week the group includes people from the Western Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, the North West and Gauteng. They bring local knowledge, their experience in education and training to date and share this with people from all over the country.

Financial assistance has been rendered to more than 5000 (five thousand) previously disadvantaged persons by providing ABET and FET training at the costs of Triple e Training. This all enables such persons to start their own enterprises.

These facilitating agents are a vital spoke in the learning wheel process and their contribution is invaluable in the lives of previously unqualified and uneducated adults in South Africa. Essentially they aim:-

• To build self-esteem in adult learners

• To empower employees to competently intervene in the working process

• To empower would-be employees to indeed confidently seek employment

• To create a more highly-skilled, flexible and adaptable workforce by equipping adults for the rapidly changing conditions in technology and markets

• To enable the creation career path opportunities for all workers/adult learners

• To ensure that education and training is consistent with nationally agreed competency standards for all categories of the labour market.