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Chartered Accountancy Charter

Section D : Challenges

17. Present and Future Activities

17.4 Challenges and Identified Strategies

17.4.1 Education

(a) School level

 

Challenges

Strategy

Programmes

Measures
• A lack of career awareness and inadequate subject choice guidance, with the result that insufficient learners are aware of the importance of maths higher grade for career purposes and insufficient black learners know about accountancy and related support positions as professions
• learners do not have appropriate numeracy and literacy skills upon entering higher education institutions
• Uneven standard of education, so learners are not sufficiently prepared for the rigors of tertiary level education or working in the public practice environment

 
• To increase the pool of learners for the profession by improving awareness of the importance of maths higher grade
• To provide programmes that provide the skill and resources to improve the results of learners in mathematics, science, accounting and English
• To increase awareness of accountancy as a profession
• To identify talented learners for recruitment into tertiary level study
• Eastern Cape: Education Upliftment Project
• KwaZulu-Natal/Limpopo: Education Upliftment Project
• Gauteng: Supplementary Education Initiative
• DST/Thuthuka: Maths and science development camps (6 projects in total)
• Career awareness initiative in all provinces
• Increased number of high calibre students choosing Chartered Accountancy as a career