Xhariep District Phase 3

Partner(s):

The Department of Education (DoE) is SAIE’s partner that identifies the target schools and regions for BusinessVENTURES training and teaching materials. Training for this project shall take place in the Xhariep district. Educators may however come from further regions to attend the BusinessVENTURES training. The main population groups among the population of 728 228 people in the Xhariep District are: Sesotho, 53.55%; Tswana, 16.57%; Afrikaans, 15.32% and Xhosa 11.1%. Africans form 83.51% while a sizable white population reaches the 11.46% mark. Xhariep district has about 548460 learners between grade 1 and 12. The economically active group between 15 and 64 is around 480140 and the non-economically active group is about 191995 people. 115481 people are unemployed and there are about 3747 employers. 47491 people have no household income, 475452 people have no personal income and those with an income below R400 are about 54895.

Our Involvement:

SAIE provides schools and educators with quality, innovative learning materials (BusinessVENTURES kits) and the requisite training in terms of content knowledge and methodology in Outcomes Based Education (OBE) and entrepreneurial development. SAIE’s BusinessVENTURES materials conform to the DoE's curriculum structure classified under the Economic and Management Sciences (EMS: Grade 2 to 9) and Business Studies (Grades 10 to 12) Learning Areas. Learners are empowered through the quality materials and effective teaching, in order to develop entrepreneurial behaviour and resourcefulness and business knowledge. This prepares them for either creating their own jobs or participating in the post school life in a more entrepreneurial way.

Project Progress:

Funding for this project has recently been approved and training is scheduled for early 2009

Funder:

Product:

BusinessVentures

Location:

Free State