UniForum SA last week launched its Grade 12 IT training materials to help further improvement in matric results this year.
Developed by Mindset Learn, through funding from CoZa Cares, which is the social responsibility arm of UniForum SA, the multi-dimensional training materials are aimed at boosting the performance of over 5 000 learners studying IT for matric.
The organisation says these learners have already been given a solid foundation upon which to perform after Mindset Learn launched the Grade 11 set of training materials in November 2010.
Mindset Learn is the schooling programme of Mindset Network, an NGO that since 2002 has developed and distributed curriculum-aligned content to both learners and educators.
Some 425 schools nationwide will begin receiving the Mindset Learn Grade 12 IT materials. The first set was officially handed over to Phil Mnisi, director: curriculum development and innovation at the Department of Basic Education, last week.
Speaking at the launch, Mnisi alluded to the important responsibility of properly educating learners in IT skills. “Just as the ability to read and write has traditionally been the foundation upon which all other further learning is based, the same can now be said of IT. When a teacher educates a learner in the area of IT, suddenly so many other career opportunities open up.”
According to CoZa Cares manager Fiona Wallace, “IT is the engine which drives SA's success as an information age economy. Without greater numbers of IT-proficient learners leaving school every year, it will be increasingly difficult for SA to keep up with countries like Brazil, Russia, India and China to which our future is tied. Our country is in desperate need of well-trained programmers, software engineers and Web developers.”
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