{"id":16014,"date":"2014-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/16014\/middelburg-college-going-big\/"},"modified":"2014-08-06T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T09:34:14","slug":"middelburg-college-going-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2014\/08\/06\/middelburg-college-going-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Middelburg College going big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Middelburg College known as Midcol is getting twenty new classrooms and a bigger library, this means more students will be accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The college currently has more than two thousand students registered in all faculties which are more than the campus can accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>As a result mobile classrooms have been put to use at the Nkangala skills centre. The high demand is from both day and evening students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The college has a fundamental role to play in skills development and building more classes is the only solution&#8221; said Mr Ledwaba.<\/p>\n<p>The project started on June 24, 2014 and should be completed on April 24, 2015, registration for the second trimester is in May 2015 and second semester in July 2015.<\/p>\n<p>New lecturers, administration staff as well as general workers will be employed, Bursaries are also available. For more information contact Mr Ledwaba at: 072 680 6542 or the college at: 013 690 1819.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16016\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/IMG_030_541785583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16016\" src=\"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/IMG_030_541785583-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Lesetja Ledwaba (Campus Manager) and Mr Petros Maphopha in front of the construction site.\" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/IMG_030_541785583-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/IMG_030_541785583-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/92\/2014\/08\/IMG_030_541785583.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mr Lesetja Ledwaba (Campus Manager) and Mr Petros Maphopha in front of the construction site.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Middelburg Nkangala college is being made bigger due to the high number of student enrollments&#8221; said Mr Lesetja Ledwaba who is the acting Campus Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":16015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Naledi Malekane","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[2213,2215,2214,2216,2217],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-fet-college-middelburg","tag-midcol","tag-middelburg-nkangala-college","tag-nkangala-skills-centre","tag-students"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["FET College middelburg","Midcol","Middelburg Nkangala college","Nkangala skills centre","students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}