{"id":220300,"date":"2026-01-13T11:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cabinet-approves-new-education-pathway-from-grade-9-to-phd-through-vocational-tvet-system\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:20:29","slug":"namibia-cabinet-approves-new-education-pathway-from-grade-9-to-phd-through-vocational-tvet-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cabinet-approves-new-education-pathway-from-grade-9-to-phd-through-vocational-tvet-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cabinet Approves New Education Pathway From Grade 9 to Phd Through Vocational Tvet System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The Cabinet has approved a national pathway allowing Grade 9 pupils to progress through the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system to obtain university-level qualifications &#8211; including doctoral degrees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This was confirmed by the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture his week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This comes after the Namibia Training Authority (NTA) conducted nationwide consultations across all 14 regions to align training with industry needs and international&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120045.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cabinet has approved a national pathway allowing Grade 9 pupils to progress through the technical and vocational education and training (TVET) system to obtain university-level qualifications &#8211; including doctoral degrees. This was confirmed by the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture his week. This comes after the Namibia Training Authority (NTA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8326,6467,1632,6138,4706,724,257,30567,6694,254,7232,20299,19806],"class_list":["post-220300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-cabinet","tag-education","tag-grade","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pathway","tag-phd","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-tvet","tag-vocational"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220300","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=220300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}