The school year for matrics in Nelson Mandela Bay has started on a high note with the distribution by the private sector of a range of career guidance resources.
Barely weeks after schools started the year, Grade 12 learners have received acclaimed career guidance workbooks, developed by industry to supplement their Life Orientation syllabus.
The business community is also preparing to engage school leavers on a large scale, directly through the annual Working World Extravaganza career guidance exhibition at the Feathermarket Centre in March. (13-15 March, 2013)
Organiser, Wellington Jansen of Inkanyezi Events said the exhibition would bring together unprecedented numbers of corporations and educational institutions to share resources with up to 15 000 learners at 200 schools over three days.
While many corporates will exhibit alongside local and national educational institutions at the expo, the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber’s Top 40 under 40 nominees will interact and share resources and advice with school prefect or leadership teams that have been invited to a special session at the expo.
In preparing them for life after school, these future leaders will also be addressed by some of the metro’s most successful leaders, including Jane Stevenson, Tim Marshall, Neil Hart and Kings captain Luke Watson.
The workbooks, approved for use in the Gr 12 Life Orientation syllabus by the Department Of Education, are developed and distributed to schools free of charge thanks to the sponsorship of Volkswagen, The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Services SETA, PE College and the NMMU.
The exhibition and all related resources, which include career guidance counselling and a DVD seminar, are provided free of charge to learners.
Jansen said the level of career resources available to schools in the region through the event alone “bodes well for the Class of 2013″.
Entry is free and the show runs from 9am to 3pm each day.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Michael Bali (Headboy of Muir College), Shaheen Karodia (Deputy Headboy of Muir College), Michael Manefeldt (Prefect of Muir College), Nigel Hopley (Headmaster of Muir College), Athi Lupondwana (Project Manager of Inkanyezi Events), Cozette Smith (HR Consultant of Volkswagen) Johan Millard (Production Academy Supervisor of Volkswagen) interact with some of the resources at the launch of the Working World Extravaganza.
