IN an effort to develop technical aviation skills and stimulate a culture of entrepreneurship among young people, the Cape Town International Airport (CIA) - together with the Peninsula Technikon (Pentech) - has signed an accord that will make available an amount of R400 000 to develop these skills among secondary school pupils.
The pupils will then be better equipped when they enter the aviation field at the Technikon and the accord assists Pentech in placing the newly trained students for training.
This decision was taken after it was announced that future Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) contracts will require that contractors employ students on the various infrastructure and maintenance projects at the airport as part of the required co-operative education of technikon training.
A special ACSA/Pentech Entrepreneurial Trust will oversee the implementation of the accord.
"As infrastructure provider to the aviation industry, ACSA is also part and parcel of the tourism industry and sees this project as contributing to the development of our human resource potential," says Hennie Taljaard regional manager of CIA.
(Adele Mackenzie)
