Man gets job after pushing trolleys by day, secretly studying engineering by night

[access]

I have said it before and I will say it again, online education is the only way that SA can get out of the mess it is in. Instead of funding the adult day care centers that universities like Stellenbosch, UCT and Wits have become, the government should be spending the money lowering the barriers to online institutions like this and UNISA, where people can still work their day jobs and do something productive with themselves at night.

people need to take advice from online aptitude tests as well..

 

[jack_spratt]

Why do it secretly?

 

[cguy]

Why do it secretly?

Because all his friends will be negative, and tell him stories about how they worked with trolley pushers with N2’s, and they didn’t even know the front of the carts from the back.

 

[Jabulani22]

One of the main barriers to education in RSA is the textbook mafia that operates , every course needs textbooks and the official publishers gouge the public , yes you can get photocopied ones but why allow this predatory activity in a field which could benefit everyone .

 

[Mila]

Well bloody done.
I never enrolled because pf the fear of failure and the money wasted on enrollment fees

 

[konfab]

Universities aren't just for producing graduates. Those "adult daycare centres" also pump out a hell of a lot more research, at higher quality than UNISA. You need to factor that into your calculations as well.

Research into important topics like fat studies, woman's studies, ethnic studies, queer studies, colonial studies?

99.99% of the "research" that universities like Stellenbosch and UCT produce is garbage.

Would be much better to put a few extra randelas into the CSIR. As for other research, at least at Stellenbosch, industry funds a very good portion of it. Especially engineering. So much so that the lab I worked at had to find creative ways to spend their budget, lest they lose it.