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Open Learning Systems Educaton Trust |
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OLSET continues to strive for the achievement of ‘a better education for all’ through its cost effective and innovative distance learning programme. As we enter our 17th year of operation we mark our progress alongside that of South Africa and the remarkable educational revolution that has taken place since apartheid days. What we have learnt working with teachers and learners in primary classrooms in the New South Africa we have also shared with colleagues in many countries facing similar challenges of poor resources, ill-equipped classrooms and a need for better training. Our developing website features projects past and present, a gallery of images from OLSET’s classrooms, and information about English in Action, the Radio Learning Programme for primary schools. We will build from here and welcome your feedback. |
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New on this website! Take the tour! Experience some of the passion and commitment of teachers and learners using the OLSET Radio Learning Programme by taking the tour with our videos. Meet educationalists, teachers, parents and pupils as they talk about what the English in Action Programme has meant in practice for their schools and their lives. Access the video clips in Media Resources. |
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South African BBC News School Reports |
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For the first time in the history of South Africa, school learners (children) aged between 11 and 14 years have been trained as News school reporters by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) in collaboration with OLSET (Open Learning Systems Education Trust) and COL (Commonwealth Of Learning).The BBC/OLSET/COL training aimed at equipping young learners with journalism skills to enable them cover news and issue based stories relevant to their lives in hte new South Afica by using information and communication technologies. |
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OLSET has piloted an innovative series of programmes about fighting poverty with positive and practical solutions. The 6-part series is now available for download and broadcast across the Africa and beyond. It features topics such as how to improve soil fertility and grow organic food, how to work together in groups and how to know as much as the middle man when it comes to marketing your produce. This radio resource, called 'Coming Together' was developed in conjunction with the Commonwealth of Learning and and involved experts and communities across Africa and India. |
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OLSET's colourful range of learning materials transform and enliven classrooms and the learning experience of pupils. Teachers’ guides, learner activity books, readers, posters, colour charts, alphabet friezes, weather charts, shape sets, colour sets, calendars, radios: the list of OLSET classroom materials is impressive. These are distributed to over 70,000 classes in 25,000 schools across seven of South Africa's provinces. The logistics of this exercise are enormous and more than 400 tonnes of learning materials have been transported to some of the most isolated communities in the country. |
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