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The Communiversity of South Africa, Vrygrond CommunityCentre, Cape Town South Africa
Aptitude and attitude - keys to climbing a self-managed career ladder
The Story of Career Development in South Africa is not good…
A Tale of Two (many) Systems
78% of the education budget goes to personnel - teacher salaries
School drop – out rates
87% of grade 4 and 78% of grade 5 learners deemed to be "at serious risk of not learning to read
The Story of Career Development in South Africa is not good…
Inequity
Teachers
What the Experts say!
Matric manipulation
Higher Education drop – out costs
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The Communiversity of South Africa
A variedA varied programmeprogramme ……
……with many different courses to learn new skillswith many different courses to learn new skills
Learning new skills, with computer,numeracy and Englishcommunications lessons on most days throughout theprogramme
Most of the field trips are for ALL students, but some only for selected students…
Field trips to local areas and to Cape Town places of interest
Preparing food with a top chef
Learning cooking and other skills such as knife skills
Preparing a meal for fellow students
Students baking and preparing food
Students visiting a wine farm inStellenbosch
Tasting wines at the wine farm
Students working at
Woolworthsover the holidays
The Communiversity 2012 programmegraduates
Nelson Mandela in his book "Long Walk to Freedom" famously said
"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm-workers can become the president"