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Social Responsibility

Teacher Internship Programme

Teacher Internship Programme

Overview

Bopa Thuto Trust is an innovative education trust and registered Public Benefit Organisation (PBO). They invest in deserving young people through tertiary education bursaries. With the help of donors and partners, they have invested in excess of R40 million in over 1000 bursaries and scholarships over the past 15 years. Through access to tertiary education, the lives of their beneficiaries have changed for the better, with most of them moving on to successful careers in South Africa.

Roedean has been identified by Bopa Thuto Trust as a lead school for their teacher development programme. As such, Roedean has been responsible for designing and implementing the school-based integration of best-practice teaching and the overall professionalisation of the intern teachers.

The purpose of the programme is to contribute to the pool of highly competent black teachers of Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Life Sciences in South Africa. We are proud to state that some of these intern teachers have been appointed as full-time teachers at Roedean.

Teacher Internship Programme

Programme Objectives

The intention of the programme is to:

Entice high-achieving graduates into the teaching profession;

Provide a two-year internship, making the candidates highly employable. 

Experience has shown that teacher-graduates who have been immersed in a classroom and practice-based programme such as this, are much more likely to find employment than those who have not.

By providing significant mentoring, ensuring that the students develop into effective and inspirational teachers within a defined period, and because of the strong psycho-social and academic support, the interns are equipped to take on leadership roles at schools in the future.

Dale Quaker

Dale Quaker is currently the Chief Financial Officer for Cupric Africa, a private equity owned mining company which through its Botswana sister company Khoemacau Copper recently completed the building of its copper silver project.

He was previously the CFO of the Khoemacau Group leading the finance function as the Group transitioned from an exploration company, through the fundraising of a $650m debt, streaming and equity funding package through to completion of construction..

Prior to joining Cupric, he was an independent consultant to the mining and construction industries. In his last corporate role, he headed up the marketing and logistics function for Xstrata Coal South Africa, after having fulfilled a senior finance role in the company previously..

Dale held roles at BHPBillition subsidiary, Samancor Chrome, both at the operations and corporate office in Johannesburg. Dale is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Management Accountant and has three daughters at Roedean.

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