Start making a difference to a student’s life today. It all adds up, and you can make a huge difference! What did you do last weekend? And, more importantly, what did it cost you? If you are part of a typical middle-income family, you probably spent between R200 and R400 on takeaways. Do this twice…
Not just reloaded, but renewed for a renowned designation: ‘The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new’ – Socrates As organisations globally embrace the future with efficiencies and the implementation of 4IR initiatives, the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (IRBA) has identified a…
The recently approved CA2025 competency framework categorises competencies into three types: professional values and attitudes, enabling competencies or acumens, and technical competencies What are professional values and attitudes? Professional values and attitudes define professional behaviour and identify professional accountants as CAs(SA), AGAs(SA) and ATs(SA) (that is, as members and associates of the accounting profession referred…
Sizwe Nxasana, founder of Future Nation Schools, recently spoke about his chain of affordable schools and whether his innovative methods can be adopted at tertiary and post-CA(SA) qualification levels. There is no denying that the education system in South Africa is deeply lacking. But innovators such as Sizwe Nxasana, founder of Future Nation Schools (FNS),…
Gareth Olivier, founder of CA Connect, speaks about what the tertiary providers of the future will look like and how they can remain relevant. While COVID-19 has forced countless companies and institutions to scramble their way online, last year CA Connect (through Milpark Education), drawing on a decade of experience in flexible accounting education, had…
Kerryn Kohl, co-founder of 4thTalent, recently spoke about developing competence for the future world of work as part of a series on the future of education run by SAIC. Over the past few months, we have been pushed into a new way of being. Thanks to COVID-19, the digital revolution has been fast-tracked and, whether…
Rob Paddock, founder of GetSmarter digital learning platform, explains micro credentialling and the need to provide a post-industrial era education model which offers affordable, accessible and quality education to all. We are living in a world of radical shift. And yet, our education system harks back to a bygone era. As part of its ‘Future…
COVID-19 is forcing us to have many conversations we probably should have initiated a long time ago − one of which is whether our education system needs to change. Author, futurist and strategy consultant Graeme Codrington recently spoke at a webinar on the future of accounting education, learning and professional development hosted by SAICA to…
The Professional Ethical Choice Model described here is one of the experiential learning tools used on SAICA’s mentoring programme, Development of the model A former chair of the Health Professions Council of South Africa’s (HPCSA) Ethics Committee, Professor Charles Malcolm, shares a story of how he came up with the idea of using a method…
When asking a school child what values his/her school embraces, he/she will quickly tell you: respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, acceptance, excellence … We all develop personal values from a very young age, and these values are personally embedded in who we are, where we come from, what we have experienced, and how we see the…