Prof. Dipiloane Dipiloane Phutsisi Phutsisi EDUCATION FOCUS
BY FIONA WAKELIN
Principal of Motheo TVET College
Q. Please give us an overview of the journey which led to becoming the Principal of Motheo TVET College. A. I served as a Lecturer, a Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of Department in the Education Faculty at Sefikeng College of Education until 1999. I then moved to the Free State Department of Education where I got appointed as a Chief Education Specialist for Curriculum Management Exams and Skills Development. With the unfolding of events in my career, I moved to the Human Resource Development Section in the same Department, where I served as a Deputy Director for HR Planning and later HRD, and also acted as a Director for Organisational Human Resources Development.There was a need for me to later return back to the Colleges sector, where I came back to support the then Administrator at Motheo TVET College as an Acting Deputy Principal for Academic Affairs in order to improve the academic results at this college, which was in dire need. In August 2013, I got appointed as the Principal of Motheo TVET College and that was a defining moment in my life and career. I acquired various leadership qualities: being sterner, patience; coping
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