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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"