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    Business and schooling reform in South Africa

    2 June 2010

    Business and schooling reform

    South African business has long identified schooling as an issue of concern and consequently a focus of significant corporate social investment. However little of this commitment and expenditure has produced much traction.

    Ann Bernstein is executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise.

    Margie Keeton is a trustee of the Epoch and Optima Trusts.  This article is based on the CDE report “Business and Schooling Reform: what can we learn from experience in the United States?”

    Many in the private sector are asking how to make a real difference in education. What can we learn from international experience?

    South African business has long identified schooling as an issue of concern and consequently a focus of significant corporate social investment.  However little of this commitment and expenditure has produced much traction.  In a struggling system, small, individual projects are not effective tools for impacting the overall quality of schooling or promoting meaningful improvement at scale  Responding to repeated official requests for assistance for ad hoc needs can only provide “˜band aids’  and never long term solutions.  

  • MES Thursday Tours

    24 January 2010

    11 February 2010
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    11 March 2010
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    14 May 2010
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    3 June 2010
    9:00 amto1:00 pm
    8 July 2010
    9:00 amto1:00 pm
    9 September 2010
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    14 October 2010
    9:00 amto1:00 pm

    MES (Metro Evangelical Services) is inviting anyone interested in their activities to join them for an informative tour of their programmes and facilities on Thursday mornings in the coming year.

    MES is a registered non-profit organisation that has been serving the homeless and destitute community in the city of Johannesburg for the past 23 years.  The organisation started as a feeding programme in 1986, handing out food parcels to the homeless and unemployed community of Hillbrow.  At that stage, MES was part of the outreach project of the Dutch Reformed Church.

    Booking is essential for planning purposes, so if you are interested in joining a tour or require further information, please email kevin@mes.org.za.

    Visit Metro Evangelical Services online.

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