More than 800,000 candidates sat for the 2024 matric exams, with 615,429 of them passing. Our country’s two-tier education system has meant that learners from schools in historically disadvantaged communities have been hurled at the margins when it comes to competing for places in traditional universities in particular. We are in conversation with Engineering studies Lecturer at Westcol TVET College, Ms Reabetswe Mapapanyane on the importance of destigmatising misconceptions about TVET colleges.