What are you letting yourself in for if you choose to study law? Training in pharmacy — what are the possibilities? E-libraries — what are they and how do you use them? Information technology courses — how do you know you’re not choosing a useless qualification? You’re in grade 12, but still unsure about further study: what do you do?
All this and more in the Mail & Guardian’s final education supplement of the year, Beyond Matric, which will be published on October 4.
Beyond Matric spotlights all institutions offering any form of post-matric study — universities, technikons and private institutions. Like Getting Ahead — the M&G’s postgraduate education supplement — Beyond Matric features articles on new (as well as entrenched) courses and degrees; the latest trends and innovations in curriculum development and the state’s higher education policies; and the employment prospects of various paths of study.
This edition of Beyond Matric will also provide in-depth data on the choices for tertiary study that grade 12 learners make. What influences their choices of what — and where — to study? What are the most popular fields? How many learners are choosing private rather than public institutions? All the answers in Beyond Matric, October 4.
Beyond Matric and Getting Ahead offer expert, high-quality reflections on the spreading revolution in South African higher education. Choices facing the prospective student have never been richer — or more confusing. Appearing four times a year, the M&G education supplements guide readers through the daunting array of degrees and courses, units and modules, skills and competencies.
David Macfarlane, the M&G’s education correspondent, is the editor of the education supplements. He welcomes any editorial information — on new courses, study programmes or qualifications, for example. Contact him on Tel: (011) 727 7000; Fax: (011) 727 7111 or E-mail: [email protected]
Advertising queries to Sybil Otterström: (011) 727 7006/7000 or Cell: 082 467 1151
Publication, editorial information and advertising deadlines for the October 4 edition of Beyond Matric:
” Editorial information — September 6.
” Advertising bookings — September 26.