Giving second chances: Midlands Community College’s Maths, Science, Technology ` Recovery’ Project
One of the flagship programmes of the Midlands Community College focus on the development of Maths, Science and Technology with the aim of enabling learners to access tertiary studies in these fields. Through this second-chances programme Midlands provides recent matriculants with the opportunity to improve their results in Mathematics and Physical Science in order to […]
Career Planet: Opportunities for youth through cellphone technology
70% of unemployed South Africans are aged between 15 and 35. Additionally, recent research reveals that 25% of unemployed South Africans have been job hunting, unsuccessfully, for at least 5 years. Not only do we clearly have a serious youth unemployment problem, we are also faced with the reality that a serious communication gap compromises […]
Focus on tertiary drop-out
100% In: The Supernews Tertiary Drop-out Superstage Supernews is a citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it, one success story at a time, one big idea at a time to increase awareness, change systems and influence new ways of thinking; […]
Supernews: Focus on the tertiary drop-out stage
Supernews, is a citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it. Recently it challenged students across the country to: – Find out what the drop-out levels were on their campuses – Find out what the major reasons behind drop-out are – Come up with innovative ways […]
Focus on: The Supernews Tertiary Drop-out Superstage
Supernews, is a citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it. Recently it challenged students across the country to: – Find out what the drop-out levels were on their campuses – Find out what the major reasons behind drop-out are – […]
100% In: The Supernews Tertiary Drop-out Superstage
Supernews, the citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it challenged students across the country to – Find out what the drop-out levels were on their campuses – Find out what the major reasons behind drop-out are – Come up with […]
Wild Coast Rural Schools Development Project: Changing Young Teachers’ Minds about Teaching in Rural Areas
The Wild Coast Rural Schools Development Project addresses the challenge of training and educating teachers who are willing to teach in rural contexts or to work in partnership with under-resourced schools. The majority of newly trained teachers choose to teach in urban areas which exacerbate shortages of qualified teachers in rural schools. The Wild Coast […]
Rural Education Access programme: Creating Higher Education Opportunities for Determined Rural Students
The Rural Education Access Programme (REAP) targets young people from very disadvantaged rural communities who have struggled against the odds to achieve a National Senior Certificate. REAP offers an opportunity for tertiary education to a selection of these students who qualify for university entrance due to their hard work and persistence despite difficult circumstances. In […]
100% In: The Supernews Tertiary Drop-out Superstage
Supernews is a citizen-generated, citizen-funded news and idea network that encourages young South Africans to change the content of the news as we know it, one success story at a time, one big idea at a time to increase awareness, change systems and influence new ways of thinking; democratise the news-making environment by generating news […]
DGMT Comment on the Green Paper on Post-school Education and Training
DGMT partner with a number of organisations that work in a number of different ways to facilitate access to post-school educational and training opportunities, and to ensure that such access leads to successful connection to the world of work. We thus read, with great interest, the Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) Green Paper […]