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Kovsies is now one of eight universities whose students benefit from the trust. It already empowers students from the University of Johannesburg, UNISA, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, University of the Western Cape, University of Fort Hare, Stellenbosch University and Rhodes University.

While studying full time towards a tertiary qualification may be the best solution for many, some find the choice of working and studying at the same time the most rewarding and beneficial way of carving out a future career for themselves.

Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) has taken four Electrical Engineering (Heavy Current) students at Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) on an unexpected career path. They joined the South African Navy January 2012 and basic training took 3 months at the largest Navy training unit, SAS Saldanha Bay Lagoon.

Ms Aucamp, a master’s student in the Department of Information Technology at Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) will join a selected group of students from South Africa universities as a recipient of Abe Bailey Travel Bursary Award.

For many scholars, this is the start of a period of great anxiety. Aside from the upcoming prelim and then final Grade 12 exams, there is also the perpetual question: what am I going to do after school?

Last week, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) announced that Praise Ndebele, a learner from Ponelopele Oracle Secondary School is this year’s winner of the National SAICA Pastel Accounting Olympiad, having scored a 92% mark. There were four runners up, each of whom achieved a score of 88%.