CUT and ESKOM HOLDINGS LTD launched and entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement ending 12 March 2016.

The Project Management launch and the MoU signed were for CUT to render academic services on postgraduate level to ESKOMemployees in the fields of BTech Project Management and MTech Business Administration. A group of 23 BTech and 13 MTech students has enrolled for the duration of two and three years respectively. Mr Twedi Seane, CUT Innovation Services (CUTis) CEO, said that the two parties have had long-term relations but confirmed that this kind of commitment from ESKOM was the first of its kind. “We have been in a long term relationship with Eskom and have fully engaged with their academy for learning. Before our Electrical Engineering diplomats get absorbed into the ESKOM fraternity and our Engineering faculty has been collaborating with ESKOM on the development of alternative energy course. We are very ecstatic and grateful to be associated with companies such as ESKOM and looking forward to provide our services even beyond ESKOM and extend it to other entities with the intention of improving the quality of lives in communities,” he concluded. 

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Eskom BTech and MTech students during the Project Management launch getting to know each other. Line managers from ESKOM and future lecturers joined the session.