{"id":180224,"date":"2024-09-09T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-shuts-down-368-illegal-colleges-vtcs\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T10:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T08:52:57","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-shuts-down-368-illegal-colleges-vtcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-shuts-down-368-illegal-colleges-vtcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Shuts Down 368 Illegal Colleges, VTCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Government has, with immediate effect, closed 368 technical and vocational training centres countrywide for operating without requisite documents in terms of the Manpower Planning and Development Act (Chapter 28:02).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Those found non-compliant include Christian academic centres, computer training schools, beauty and therapy colleges, and schools of dressmaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, Science and Technology Development confirmed the development in a statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has, with immediate effect, closed 368 technical and vocational training centres countrywide for operating without requisite documents in terms of the Manpower Planning and Development Act (Chapter 28:02). Those found non-compliant include Christian academic centres, computer training schools, beauty and therapy colleges, and schools of dressmaking. The Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,10697,4357,6918,257,5223,254,49476,4686,421],"class_list":["post-180224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-colleges","tag-govt","tag-illegal","tag-news","tag-shuts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vtcs","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}