CIDA City Campus
| CIDA City Campus | |
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| founding | 1999 |
| place | Johannesburg , South Africa |
| management | Taddy Blecher |
| Students | 1,300 |
| Website | www.cida.co.za |
CIDA City Campus ( Community and Individual Development Association City Campus ) is a private, state-recognized and non-commercial higher education institution based in Johannesburg , South Africa , which was founded in 1999 and aims to provide higher educational qualifications to African students from poorer backgrounds. The institution calls itself “South Africa's first free university”.
Goals and visions
The targeted support of poorer African students is based on the vision of breaking the downward spiral of poverty and AIDS in Africa and contrasting it with a culture of learning and self-confidence. In order to achieve this goal, qualified specialists are to be trained who are to shape the future of Africa on their own. Talented young Africans should no longer be prevented by their unfavorable economic background from developing into the future leaders of their nation.
In the long term, a CIDA City Campus is to be built in every country in sub-Saharan Africa .
Study and graduation
The CIDA City Campus is located in an Investec Bank building in downtown Johannesburg. All students have access to the Internet and e-mail; The computer laboratory in South Africa, which is equipped with more than 1,000 devices and is therefore the largest according to its own information, is available for teaching. The technical focus of the course is on business administration and information technology .
Students have the opportunity to acquire a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in a four-year course . The CIDA City Campus BBA degree has been officially recognized by the Council of High Education (CHE) of the South African government and a number of other institutions.
With around 20,000 applicants annually, around 1,300 students were enrolled at the CIDA City Campus in 2007. The majority of these students come from the rural areas of South Africa.
The students are obliged to support the university with their own work - for example in the self-organized catering area. During their semester break they go to their home villages and teach there, in order to achieve a multiplier effect. After completing their studies, each graduate pays the tuition fees of a newly enrolled student.
Web links
CIDA
- University website . on www.cida.co.za (English), link target not available (August 21, 2016)
- Website of the CIDA Foundation . at www.cidafoundation.org (English)
About CIDA City Campus
- Sean Coughlan: University for South Africa's poor (report on BBC News with background information on the establishment of the institution by Taddy Blecher)
- CIDA City Campus (short film by the Kellogg Foundation , available online via YouTube )
- A look at the CIDA City Campus (short film by the Skoll Foundation, available online via YouTube)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Why ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CIDA Foundation UK.
- ↑ See also the page “ Concept ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “Of the CIDA Foundation UK.
- ↑ See also the page “ How ( Memento of the original of September 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “Of the CIDA Foundation UK.
- ↑ See the Technology Infrastructure page of the CIDA City Campus.
- ↑ See the page “ What ( Memento of the original from November 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. “By the CIDA Foundation UK (accessed October 15, 2007).
