Andreas Velthuizen's Page

"Why is eduacation suddenly about  Blumenthal and Nzimande (note the alphabetical order)? Education and training should be about those learners in need of skills, knowledge and especially a change in attitude to improve the conditions…"

"There are three sides to the story. 1. Junior rank public servant has to do extra work to make ends meet while senior management waste money travelling overseas and enjoy their car ellowances. If they develop skills and it is not…"

" The following course is ready: 115405: APPLY PRINCIPLES OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TO ORGANISATIONAL TRANSFORMATION. "

"  Great man we appreciate and respect your professionalism and emancipation of the mind"

"Everybody, all stakeholders and role players, should be focussed on praxis and facilitating critical reflexion as part of the required integrated competence. It should be ebmedded in all institutions and practices. The SETAS should be…"

"Unfortunately, Catherine, to keep politicians out of education is impossible (unless you refer to educators with political motives) and not the case in any educational system in the world. Why should we be different? The elected politicians (good or…"

"Thank you Wessel, you provide some valuable insights. Obviously we had different experiences from the history of eduction in our country, but a fact that remains is that most people were excluded from quality education and opportunities.…"

"The current disfunctions in education have very little to do with personalities. The rot was already there in 1963 when I started school. The rot gradually crept into the system until quality education was eventually only for the selected few,…"

"I wish more DGs will follow her example. When a department is in a mess the DG is accountable. Lets just hope that this will bring innovation of the system, not just change. I especially hope that the marginilized, especially the poor people in our…"