Today sees the start of a new academic term at universities across the Western Cape. The final few of our continuing bursary students have returned to their student residences over the weekend. They have been joined by seven new students, … Continue reading →
For most of our bursary students, the first priority after graduating is to find a job. That was not the case for Loyiso Tunce, who beaome the first of our students to complete a postgraduate qualification when he recently finished … Continue reading →
In 2011 Ziyanda Mwanda volunteered to work at the annual Careers Indaba at Masiphumelele library, which is where she came to hear about Masicorp. At the time she was in the second year of a BSc Biotechnology course at the … Continue reading →
The end of the academic year has come around again and to celebrate Masicorp recently took our bursary students out for lunch at The Fisherman’s Pub & Grill in Kommetjie. Thanks to programme manager Susan de Vaux for providing … Continue reading →
Thanks to our financial and personal support, the dropout rate for university students in the Masicorp Bursary Scheme is exceptionally low, as we recently reported. We also recently profiled two of our successful university graduates, Lungelwa Mkokeli and Olwethu Mlaza. … Continue reading →
Lungelwa Mkokeli was born in the Eastern Cape in 1992. She grew up as one of seven children, all raised by her hard-working mother who had only the help of national child support grants. Despite the difficult living conditions Lungelwa … Continue reading →
In 2006, Masicorp had not yet considered supporting students with university level education. That all changed one afternoon when Olwethu Mlaza tapped Masicorp volunteer Jill Stirrup on the shoulder and asked her for help getting to university. Having achieved good … Continue reading →
The Council on Higher Education (CHE) and Department of Higher Education and Training have expressed concerns over the high dropout rates at South African universities. Despite the critical need for high level skills, particularly amongst the country’s previously disadvantaged groups, … Continue reading →
In the last two weeks all of our bursary students have returned to their student residences around Cape Town ready to tackle semester 2 of the academic year. The different academic institutions have slightly staggered start dates so it has … Continue reading →
For the past two months Masicorp has been hosting two masters students from the University of Edinburgh, who were undertaking research work in Masiphumelele as part of their MSc course in International Development. Both students gave their feedback to us … Continue reading →