There is ongoing international, as well as strong rural local interest in the online training by Cement and Concrete South Africa’s School of Concrete Technology (SCT), the oldest and largest provider of concrete technology education in South Africa which has for decades offered a wide range of acclaimed courses for all levels of competency.
SCT, to comply with COVID-19 restrictions, currently offers a diverse selection of online concrete training courses tailored specifically to the needs of the concrete industry and hopes to again include live classes next year if pandemic conditions and restrictions allow. Since going online, students have enrolled for the SCT’s more advanced courses from diverse global areas including Uganda, Kenya, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates, says John Roxburgh, senior lecturer at the School.
“Staff of South African mines in remote areas have also made extensive use of the SCT30 ‘Concrete Technology’ course in preparation for their engineers’ mining ‘tickets’ of competency. For our more basic brick- and block-making courses, enrolments have come from distant rural areas such as Mthatha and Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape; Mkhuze, Msinga and Mvoti in KZN, as well as Giyani, Steelpoort, Phalaborwa and the Venda region in Limpopo province, to name just a few places,” Roxburgh states.
The School’s 2022 Training Programme is scheduled for release soon but currently it offers more than 15 concrete training courses, three of which are internationally recognised, including the highly sought-after and internationally- recognised Advanced Concrete Technology (ACT) diploma. In addition, SCT offers special concrete technology courses tailor-made for specific companies’ needs. The School’s team of trainers/lecturers can formulate courses to address a full range of skills training a company may need to add more creative strategic thinking and expertise to its ranks.
“The SCT has structured a progression of course levels that will allow prospective students to join at a level that matches their personal competency. There can be no short cuts to becoming a good concrete technology practitioner and the School has all the educational requirements to help trainees meet their specific goals,” he states.
Successful students for all SCTs courses receive certificates of attendance/competence and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points are awarded on selected courses.
