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Education
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Over 360 teachers
are in the teacher support
programmes
Over 27 000 learners
benefit from our STEM
learner support programme
Three mobile labs were donated, two by
the Sasol Global Foundation to Sci-bono and
the North-West University.
Over
9 000 children
in the Early Childhood
Education programme,
319 practitioners,
179 managers
and 187 centres
One to Osizweni Education Resource
Centre to service schools in Badplaas to
ensure that learners in under-resourced schools
have access to science laboratories.
University
collaboration
Sasol collaborates with
12 universities
About
Tertiary education
Technical
education
200
bursaries
were awarded to students
to pursue graduate studies
at universities around
South Africa
in South Africa to strengthen
their research and development
capacity. Regarding national
capacity development and
scientific excellence, five
students graduated with
postgraduate qualifications,
63 papers were published in
peer-reviewed journals and 126
oral or poster presentations
were made at local and
international conferences during
2019.
Over the years the Sasol Global Foundation (The Foundation) has played a pivotal role, in
embedding technical subjects, building teacher capacity and providing the resources, required for
technical education to succeed in the South African schooling system. The Foundation is supporting
five technical high schools across the country and has contributed to the increase in performance
and number of learners enrolled for technical subjects in these schools. About 6 000 learners
are benefitting from this intervention and 40 teachers are receiving onsite support and
training through workshops. One of our learners from the Gauteng North District was among the
Top Ten learners in the country for Technical Mathematics and Science in 2019 academic year.
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