Varsity College and the International College of Hotel Management (ICHM) launched a student bursary initiative that allowed one Hotel Management 3 student to study the prestigious Bachelor of International Hotel Management degree at a campus in Adelaide, Australia in 2010 /2011.
Varsity College Sandton student, Megan Kalil, emerged victorious from a rigorous selection process, to take the ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to study in Australia, with all flights, tuition and accommodation covered by Varsity College. The selection process took academic achievement, industry conduct and feedback, a letter of motivation and panel interviews into account.
Megan completed the accelerated degree programme in 6 months, and then worked in Australia for another six months. She thoroughly enjoyed her graduation ceremony.
Friday, 30 September 2011
Teaching Entrepreneurship and Giving Back
Some youngsters from Eastern Province Children's Home joined in the fun on the 13th of September at Varsity College's Mini Market Day, run by the First year students doing a Diploma in Business Marketing and Entrepreneurship (DBME) at the College. The kids were given a financial budget to spend and loved getting involved in the activities available such as a jumping castle, face painting and numerous food stalls, while at the same time raising awareness about children in need and capturing the hearts of the students.
Friday, 23 September 2011
VC Sports Bulletin
Cape Town - The VC Water Polo men’s A side played in the semi-final of the Winter League against SACS on a cold Thursday night. It was a tightly contested game but unfortunately we ended up losing 4-2 to a SACS team that had too much fire power for us. This is our 1st year in the water polo club scene in CPT so this is a brilliant achievement because even Maties one of the strongest clubs in the province didn’t make the semi’s! Well done guys!
Sandton – Jared, the MTB Captain, and another MTB club member entered the Spring Classic MTB race in Fourways. It was a enjoyable race and Jared did VC proud by winning his age group!
Durban North – The Durban North Pirates are the winners of this year’s KZN Inter-campus Sports Day...winning by a narrow margin of 3.5 points to the Westville Cowboys.
Westville – The current NASW netball champions continued their winning streak by coming out tops in the 3rd division at the Highway Action Arena! They won the gold final 28 – 25!
Pretoria – Estiaan, the triathlon captain, has been training his team really hard and it all paid off at the Ufolio Golf Estate Triathlon at Naboomspruit as Estiaan came first and the VCPTA club team came first in the team event!
Port Elizabeth – VCPE men’s soccer team have been on a winning streak in recent weeks...beating Damelin 5 – 0, drawing 1 – 1 with Alex High School and beating Edu College 5 – 3.
Pietermaritzburg – Gina, the running captain, has been working hard on developing their VCPMB Running Club so it was great to see 5 students competing in the Capital Climb and 14 students and staff compete in the PMB Spar Ladies Race this last weekend!
Cape Town – Sean Rice, the surfski captain, has been flying the VC flag high overseas in the USA and Portugal by finishing an impressive 3rd in the US surfski champs and 2nd in the Chicago Shoreline Marathon!
Varsity College Old Boys U20B team played in the final of the Murray Cup Knock Out Competition U20B division and won! A nice foundation to develop a strong U20 squad for next season! Both VC Old Boys 1st and 2nd teams also made it through to the semi-final stage of the Murray Cup.
Sandton – Jared, the MTB Captain, and another MTB club member entered the Spring Classic MTB race in Fourways. It was a enjoyable race and Jared did VC proud by winning his age group!
Durban North – The Durban North Pirates are the winners of this year’s KZN Inter-campus Sports Day...winning by a narrow margin of 3.5 points to the Westville Cowboys.
Westville – The current NASW netball champions continued their winning streak by coming out tops in the 3rd division at the Highway Action Arena! They won the gold final 28 – 25!
Pretoria – Estiaan, the triathlon captain, has been training his team really hard and it all paid off at the Ufolio Golf Estate Triathlon at Naboomspruit as Estiaan came first and the VCPTA club team came first in the team event!
Port Elizabeth – VCPE men’s soccer team have been on a winning streak in recent weeks...beating Damelin 5 – 0, drawing 1 – 1 with Alex High School and beating Edu College 5 – 3.
Pietermaritzburg – Gina, the running captain, has been working hard on developing their VCPMB Running Club so it was great to see 5 students competing in the Capital Climb and 14 students and staff compete in the PMB Spar Ladies Race this last weekend!
Cape Town – Sean Rice, the surfski captain, has been flying the VC flag high overseas in the USA and Portugal by finishing an impressive 3rd in the US surfski champs and 2nd in the Chicago Shoreline Marathon!
Varsity College Old Boys U20B team played in the final of the Murray Cup Knock Out Competition U20B division and won! A nice foundation to develop a strong U20 squad for next season! Both VC Old Boys 1st and 2nd teams also made it through to the semi-final stage of the Murray Cup.
Varsity College Moot final 2011
Westville Law Students test their skills in front of real judges.
As part of the integrated approach to studying, Varsity College Westville hosts an annual moot court for its final year law students. A moot court is a constructed court platform where law students are given the opportunity to practice their advocacy skills.
Twelve Varsity College Westville Law students participated in the moot court and from this, four were selected to go to the finals. The finalists were Cassy Vorster, Fatima Laher, Nischal Patel and Skye Krummeck. Cassy Vorster and Skye Krummeck argued the appellants case and Fatima Laher and Nischal Patel were the respondents. The judges who presided over the moot court were Johan Ploos van Amstel and Soma Naidoo.
The finals were held on the 31 August at the Westville Country Club. The room was filled with excitement and some nerves as the final four were preparing their cases. Family, friends and lecturers were all there to encourage and support the finalists.
Once the case started, the judges were introduced and the participants began to defend their cases to the best of their abilities. As they argued, the judges began to question the 4 participants in order to push their limits and test their true advocacy skills. Both cases were defended exceptionally well. The judges were then left with the difficult task of choosing the winner and runner up of the Varsity College Moot Final 2011. The Winner was Cassy Vorster and the runner-up was Nischal Patel, however, all students involved gained very valuable experience from the event.
Awards of certificates and trophies were presented to all participating students. The four students that made their cases in the final received vacation work, whilst the winner and runner up received book vouchers from Lexis Nexis to the value of R1000.00 and R500.00 respectively.
"I am so grateful to Varsity College for hosting this event as this brings great exposure for its law students." said Suraya Govender, Law student at Varsity College Westville.
As part of the integrated approach to studying, Varsity College Westville hosts an annual moot court for its final year law students. A moot court is a constructed court platform where law students are given the opportunity to practice their advocacy skills.
Twelve Varsity College Westville Law students participated in the moot court and from this, four were selected to go to the finals. The finalists were Cassy Vorster, Fatima Laher, Nischal Patel and Skye Krummeck. Cassy Vorster and Skye Krummeck argued the appellants case and Fatima Laher and Nischal Patel were the respondents. The judges who presided over the moot court were Johan Ploos van Amstel and Soma Naidoo.
The finals were held on the 31 August at the Westville Country Club. The room was filled with excitement and some nerves as the final four were preparing their cases. Family, friends and lecturers were all there to encourage and support the finalists.
Once the case started, the judges were introduced and the participants began to defend their cases to the best of their abilities. As they argued, the judges began to question the 4 participants in order to push their limits and test their true advocacy skills. Both cases were defended exceptionally well. The judges were then left with the difficult task of choosing the winner and runner up of the Varsity College Moot Final 2011. The Winner was Cassy Vorster and the runner-up was Nischal Patel, however, all students involved gained very valuable experience from the event.
Awards of certificates and trophies were presented to all participating students. The four students that made their cases in the final received vacation work, whilst the winner and runner up received book vouchers from Lexis Nexis to the value of R1000.00 and R500.00 respectively.
"I am so grateful to Varsity College for hosting this event as this brings great exposure for its law students." said Suraya Govender, Law student at Varsity College Westville.
Eye Care Awareness with Retina SA and Varsity College
Retina South Africa is a non-profit organisation dedicated to finding the cause of, and treatment for, retinal degenerative disorders. While aggressively promoting research to resolve the problem, they also aim to do as much as possible to assist sufferers in coping with their condition.
Varsity College students had a great time with Gail Cillie and her guide dog Toga getting in "Minute to Win It" spirit, raising awareness about Eye Care through attempting various challenges while being blindfolded. These activities were staged as a build up to an exhibition that will be taking place on campus on Thursday the 22nd of September 2011, where free screenings will be done for students.
For more information about Retina SA phone the local branch based in Port Elizabeth on Tel: 041 365 5947 041 363 or Adelé Voges, Student Relations Manager at Varsity College, Port Elizabeth Campus.
Varsity College students had a great time with Gail Cillie and her guide dog Toga getting in "Minute to Win It" spirit, raising awareness about Eye Care through attempting various challenges while being blindfolded. These activities were staged as a build up to an exhibition that will be taking place on campus on Thursday the 22nd of September 2011, where free screenings will be done for students.
For more information about Retina SA phone the local branch based in Port Elizabeth on Tel: 041 365 5947 041 363 or Adelé Voges, Student Relations Manager at Varsity College, Port Elizabeth Campus.
Varsity College and St Albans College put Grade 11 leaders firmly on the path to greatness.
iLead Conference 2011
One hundred and forty future leaders from the top schools around the country gathered in Pretoria for 3 days of powerful leadership inspiration. Grade 11 learners were privileged to experience at the 2011 ‘iLead’ Conference, held at St Albans College in Pretoria 29 – 31 August 2011. Top Billing’s charismatic Dr Michael Mol and Talk Radio 702 DJ and journalist David O’Sullivan were on hand to be a part of this event.
Varsity College and St Albans College have collaborated to host and create this initiative to guide learners who are about to take up leadership positions within their schools. These learners will no doubt move on to being the leaders and captains of industry in their chosen careers, so it is important that they are equipped with the skills to do this in an inspired and informed way.
The conference was an intense mix of talks and workshop-based learning sessions and live scenarios.
Michael Mol spoke to the learners about strengths-based leadership - focusing on your own and others’ strengths and capitalising on these.
Eight different speakers gave their perspective on different aspects of leadership, such as that of the African context, self-leadership, courageous leadership and the challenges of leadership.
Learners were mixed up into groups from different schools and had to make the leap between listening to someone speak about a leadership concept, and putting it into action with a task, as well as show or discuss how they would implement the concept within their school.
One of the tasks was called ‘World Chef Conference’ – learners were given the task of finding ingredients and cooking a chicken – without the benefit of a kitchen to hand. Many fires later; gourmet chicken was enjoyed by all!
The feedback from the 140 boys and girls in attendance was that the learning curve was outstanding. Their dedicated participation in every talk and activity showed just how captivated and involved they were.
‘Varsity College is passionate about furthering and developing leadership skills amongst our youth, and this is one of the most tangible ways of doing this. Through developing leadership, we develop our youth beyond the classroom and into the world‘ says Simon Nicolson, Marketing Manager of Varsity College.
One hundred and forty future leaders from the top schools around the country gathered in Pretoria for 3 days of powerful leadership inspiration. Grade 11 learners were privileged to experience at the 2011 ‘iLead’ Conference, held at St Albans College in Pretoria 29 – 31 August 2011. Top Billing’s charismatic Dr Michael Mol and Talk Radio 702 DJ and journalist David O’Sullivan were on hand to be a part of this event.
Varsity College and St Albans College have collaborated to host and create this initiative to guide learners who are about to take up leadership positions within their schools. These learners will no doubt move on to being the leaders and captains of industry in their chosen careers, so it is important that they are equipped with the skills to do this in an inspired and informed way.
The conference was an intense mix of talks and workshop-based learning sessions and live scenarios.
Michael Mol spoke to the learners about strengths-based leadership - focusing on your own and others’ strengths and capitalising on these.
Eight different speakers gave their perspective on different aspects of leadership, such as that of the African context, self-leadership, courageous leadership and the challenges of leadership.
Learners were mixed up into groups from different schools and had to make the leap between listening to someone speak about a leadership concept, and putting it into action with a task, as well as show or discuss how they would implement the concept within their school.
One of the tasks was called ‘World Chef Conference’ – learners were given the task of finding ingredients and cooking a chicken – without the benefit of a kitchen to hand. Many fires later; gourmet chicken was enjoyed by all!
The feedback from the 140 boys and girls in attendance was that the learning curve was outstanding. Their dedicated participation in every talk and activity showed just how captivated and involved they were.
‘Varsity College is passionate about furthering and developing leadership skills amongst our youth, and this is one of the most tangible ways of doing this. Through developing leadership, we develop our youth beyond the classroom and into the world‘ says Simon Nicolson, Marketing Manager of Varsity College.
School pupils show their intelligence
Varsity College Pretoria hosted its 4th annual School Quiz on the 6th of September 2011, at the Pretoria Boys High School. A total of 21 of Pretoria’s top schools entered their teams into the quiz event; including Abbotts College, Hillview High School, Hoërskool Oos-Moot, Afrikaanse Hoër Seunskool and Pretoria High School for Girls.
Nicole Flint, a former Miss South Africa hosted the event, which consisted of questions from seven categories including history, sport and general knowledge.
As the quiz started out the different teams did extremely well; but the competition soon became stiff during the second and third round. Top teams consisted of Crawford College, Hoërskool Montana, Pretoria Boys High School and Hoërskool Waterkloof.
Unfortunately, only one team could take the stunning Albert Einstein Schools Quiz floating trophy. Crawford College was crowned the champions for the Varsity College Pretoria Schools Quiz 2011, taking home a cash prize of R 1 000.00 per team member and a Varsity College full two year bursary. Sutherland High School took second place banking a cash prize of R 500.00 per team member and a one year full Varsity College bursary and in third place was Pretoria Boys High School taking home a cash prize of R 250.00 per team member and a one year full Varsity College bursary.
The event was held to allow the pupils to participate in an event which was both fun as well as educational. The evening was enjoyed by the participants, the audience and the school teachers.
Nicole Flint, a former Miss South Africa hosted the event, which consisted of questions from seven categories including history, sport and general knowledge.
As the quiz started out the different teams did extremely well; but the competition soon became stiff during the second and third round. Top teams consisted of Crawford College, Hoërskool Montana, Pretoria Boys High School and Hoërskool Waterkloof.
Unfortunately, only one team could take the stunning Albert Einstein Schools Quiz floating trophy. Crawford College was crowned the champions for the Varsity College Pretoria Schools Quiz 2011, taking home a cash prize of R 1 000.00 per team member and a Varsity College full two year bursary. Sutherland High School took second place banking a cash prize of R 500.00 per team member and a one year full Varsity College bursary and in third place was Pretoria Boys High School taking home a cash prize of R 250.00 per team member and a one year full Varsity College bursary.
The event was held to allow the pupils to participate in an event which was both fun as well as educational. The evening was enjoyed by the participants, the audience and the school teachers.
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