Sometimes, life does not work out the way one thinks it would and that is not necessarily a bad thing as it may open doors and bring different parts of what you want together. This has been the case for Thabo.
Category: Education
SCAM: an illegal plan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people – Cambridge Dictionary
Why do scams survive, without changing much, other than minor details? Here I am again, talking about scams. However, I would like to take a more philosophical view this time. Let us look at how and why people get caught. Again. And (sometimes) again!
I want to state that scams illustrate parts of the Human Condition we may not be too proud of. Added to that the novel situation we find ourselves in with the Coronavirus and the unprecedented acceleration of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has made this worse.
On prices and dinosaurs – watching the History Channel and reliving your youth
A university has invited me to address their history department. I think they did so because I am the only fossil – an ex-student – they could find. Initially I thought it would be fun to tell the students about what it was like studying at that institution during the 1970s (the good old days?) but on reflection I realised it is all a bit embarrassing!
It is the year 2030…
A Whale-bus as a means to cross the Atlantic! Certainly some of the future predictions made by the French commercial artist Jean-Marc Côté and his team at the 1900s World’s Fair ‘Exposition Universelle’ were strange, indeed! The same can be said for the predictions made by many futurists throughout the ages.
The ‘new normal’ that still seems so foreign and what the fourth industrial revolution has to do with it
The Fourth Industrial Revolution brings technologies that blur the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres across all sectors. It brings about boundary-busting disruptions that will change the world of work as we know it
Increasing your earnings and growing your assets
Good debt leads to increases in earnings or growing value in assets. Education is a good debt, because it increases your employability and then, within your chosen occupation, it increases your ability to earn money. Another good debt is buying property.
Pocket Money – Please Sir, may I have some more?
I don’t know of any parent who has successfully navigated raising children without the issue of pocket money coming up. In some families such interactions between the parents and their offspring have led to rifts of seismic proportions
Taking to the Road: a Journey in Lifelong Learning
I do not have to tell you that the world is changing at an ever-increasing speed. I need – and want – to keep up!
When education is a waste of time
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) is the official body that oversees the
development of the National Qualification Framework (NQF) in South Africa. The NQF is the system we use to determine different levels of academic achievement.
Registered training institutions offer programmes that provide specific, quality outcomes. Doing a registered course also means that your qualification will be recognized by employers, in South Africa as well as other countries. Continue reading “When education is a waste of time”