Presentation 2010

http://www.cida.co.za

Africa’s first virtually free university.

Who we are

• Based in Johannesburg, CIDA City Campus is the first virtually free higher education institution in South Africa, offering tertiary education to historically disadvantaged youth who would otherwise have no access to higher education.

• Since its founding in 2000, CIDA has developed an innovative education model. It offers a fully accredited Bachelor of Business administration (BBA) degree and various other programmes that aim at developing business minded graduates who can think creatively, engage in open dialogue and advance the transformation of the country and the region as a whole. 

• CIDA City Campus is accredited by the Council on Higher Education (CHE) as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act 1997. Registration Certificate No 2002/HE08/011.

Our vision

A prosperous nation through relevant and affordable quality education.

Our Mission• We provide wider access to quality tertiary education to provide

opportunities to more learners who would otherwise have no prospects of furthering their education.

• We offer a supportive, well-rounded education, including student involvement in community-upgrade projects, which contributes to the full development of every learner.

• We develop progressive and creative thinkers.

• We foster good citizenship and harmonious co-existence.

• We contribute to the social and economic development of our nation.

Rationale for CIDA’s Innovative Approach

• Gap in South African education model.

• Limited access to tertiary education by students from previously disadvantaged backgrounds (low income, under resourced school communities etc).

• Shortage in entry level business management skills among black students.

• Stringent entry requirements at traditional universities.

How does CIDA respond to government strategic priorities

Access to quality education

- Low cost, high impact solution.- Collaboration: Corporate and overseas universities.- Affordable education.- Partnership with business.- Studies incorporate work experience, e.g. internships, learnerships and operations.- Course relevance and intensity: workshop vs lectures.-Offer access to relevant education.- Transformative learning approach for good workplace attitude and behaviour.

Descent jobs

- Social entrepreneurship incubation programme to develop young and emerging small businesses.

- 82% of CIDA is employed (mostly in Finance and IT sector).

Crime and corruption

- Widening the net of the productive economy.

Rural development

- Philosophy of Ubuntu: community development and sustainability.

CIDA’s approach to improve skills development

• Students exchange programmes.• Professionals from industry and education partners sits in governing

structures of the institution.Collaborative arrangement with education sector e.g.

• Bournemouth University-developing new academic programmes in media and communication, tourism and event management.

• Cambridge University Press - improving readership of all kinds of books by students and academic staff.

• SAP University Alliance - prepare students for employment by integrating SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

Collaborative arrangement with industry partners e.g.

The ICT Academy: T-Systems, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Cisco,

CompTIA and Dell.

The School of Investments: JP Morgan, JSE, Reuters and SAIFM.

The Branson School of Entrepreneurship: Virgin Group.

CIDA’s Achievements (2008/9)

• Thandeka Pertunia Zulu, won the Goldman Sachs Leadership award and $3020 in prize money. She has been chosen as one of six Global Leaders from South Africa from five universities across the country

• Lucky Madonsela, a final year student in 2008 received the Armaband/Arms student of the year award, which included winning a trip to the inauguration of President Barack Obama as US President. Lucky graduated in 2009 and works at Nedbank.

• Charmaine Ntuli: won the MILEAD Fellowship held in Ghana. She was the only South African participant out of 23 other participants from universities around Africa. Charmaine was also elected President for 2009/2010 by her peers.

• Pelani Fetman won 3rd place at the prestigious Traders Trophy, a competition run by Oxyor (Holland), sponsored by Standard Bank and the JSE. She received R2 500 in an online share trading account from Standard Bank with a 1 year free subscription

• 204 students graduated in July- 2009

• The Head of the Branson School of Entrepreneurship at CIDA (Mr. James Wanjohi) was nominated as a Young Global Leader (YGL) for 2009. This honour is bestowed by the World Economic Forum each year to recognize the two hundred most distinguished young leaders below the age of 40 from around the world.

• The ICT Academy was awarded the status of a Regional Academy by CISCO Systems

• Cambridge University Press one of the largest academic publishers in the world, introduced CIDA Empowerment as a 25.1% shareholder into its South African business to help fund CIDA City Campus

• CIDA City Campus won the Centre for Public Innovation Awards for 2009

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

(Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela)

CIDA City Campus

Presented by:

Simphiwe Vulindlu