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CIDA City Campus

CIDA City Campus. South Africa’s first virtually free university Fully accredited Institution Founded in JHB in 1999 (1 st graduates in 2004) Creating opportunities for academically deserving students from underprivileged and disadvantaged backgrounds. CIDA City Campus.

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CIDA City Campus

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  1. CIDA City Campus • South Africa’s first virtually free university • Fully accredited Institution • Founded in JHB in 1999 (1st graduates in 2004) • Creating opportunities for academically deserving • students from underprivileged and disadvantaged • backgrounds

  2. CIDA City Campus • Educational focus is business management, • entrepreneurship and Information & Communication • Technology • Producing employable graduates through career - • focused education • Widening the net of the productive economy

  3. CIDA Education Model Workplace attachment (internship)

  4. CIDA Model • Low cost, high impactsolution • Student and business participation • Career focused skills-based education • Humanitarian values aimed at empowering • students • Studies incorporate practical work experience • Practicum, internships, learnerships • Partnership with business • Collaboration: Corporate companies and overseas universities • Philosophy of Ubuntu: Community development, sustainability • Course relevance to Industry: Schools of Excellence

  5. CIDA Empowerment Trust CIDA Empowerment Fund Building sustainability… Corporate Social Investments/ Donations Bursaries for CIDA Students Funding

  6. Student Engagement • Very involved (student-centred Environment) • Use students to tell their experiences to the visitors • Use them in public platforms such as Radio, TV & News papers • Involve them in certain areas of operations • Share information with Student Leadership

  7. CIDA City Campus Thank you Wiseman Jack Academic Dean, CIDA City Campus /

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