The SAIMC is attempting to get tertiary education institutions to adapt their courses in order to provide ‘products’ that the industry requires – hence the establishment of a Supplier Advisory Council, an Education and Training Advisory Council as well as an End User Advisory Council.
Didactic membership is open to those education institutions that cover all categories included within the B-BBEE codes. These include TVETs, SAQA-accredited institutions, universities, private education institutions that provide basic adult education and training programmes, etc.
It is expected that a didactic member will establish a local branch of the SAIMC. By doing this, they can attract speakers from the industry to cover the latest technologies, at a time that suits the didactic member and its constituents. As with all regional membership fees, the fees are not retained by the executive committee but will be forwarded to the didactic branch to boost the finances of its committee in the form of a ‘branch sponsorship’.
It is not sufficient that an individual lecturer commits to these changes, as they would not have the authority to make these types of decisions within their institution. The institution itself needs to demonstrate its commitment by joining the SAIMC as a didactic member.
The SAIMC also understands that tertiary education cannot make drastic changes overnight, since there are ECSA requirements, lecturer competence and knowledge, laboratory equipment and so forth to consider. The proviso is that the didactic member will forward the names of its constituents to the SAIMC and that these individual members will all register on the SAIMC website as didactic members of the institution.
An SAIMC trust fund is being set up, which will be funded by B-BBEE contributions, to award bursaries to students who will be studying at institutions that obtain didactic membership. For those that join, their lecturers and students in the field of instrumentation and control will become members of the SAIMC at no cost.
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