373 days ago
Passion, a tool for bettering education.

BY Justin Nurse.

In this Pied Piper Project instalment, a LeadSA and Independent Newspapers initiative, Justin Nurse talks to Leigh Meinert, a co-founder of the Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA), a private, non-profit business administration school that drives access to higher education by providing full-paid tuition to its students.

Tell us about TSiBA.

We take students who ordinarily wouldn’t get into university and then produce better graduate rates than some of the best universities in the country.

That comes down to the uniqueness of our education model.

At our Cape Town campus, TSiBA provides a one-year bridging process into higher education to address some of the “calamities” in previous education, followed by a three-year accredited degree.

We like to think that we are “fine grained” – we know all our students by name and there’s a huge amount of support in terms of mentors and infrastructure.

Like our name (tsiba means “jump” in Xhosa), we help students jump ahead.

To read the full article, click here: http://bit.ly/LUcHnf