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Greetings !!!. If you are on this page, then you have a definitive passion and a strong interest in private education provisioning in South Africa. You are in the right place to fast track your own entry into private education provisioning. If you have previous private provider experience in training and development, then feel free to use our various resources on this website and also subscribe to this site & our YouTube Channel - Private Education in South Africa which allows you to stay abreast of the latest developments in national education issues in South Africa and abroad, as suitable & appropriate for local implementation. Our YouTube link is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdtyAlkxcqQktuch6uw2QnQ.
ENGAGING OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
If you have little or no experience in private education and training, but would like to access this sector for wealth creation and business development purposes, then we suggest you professionally engage our services and do promise you that your investment in our professional fees will place you in a strategic position to attain 10 x fees paid in sales as your first-year annual turnover, provided our strategic direction and guidelines are followed.
USE THE EXPERTS OR TRY THIS ALONE - A CASE IN POINT
We have several clients on our current books that have approached us many years earlier, and tried opening up their college on their own, failed either once or via several attempts & different approaches, and after spending a lot of money + invested time, returned to us for professional engagement.
In one instance, a client that first approached us in 2017, decided to go through the accreditation and registration process on his own, tried 19 different applications for different programmes over 3 years all of which were declined. The same client now recently formally engaged us for CHE Accreditation in August 2021. This client is now 80% complete for both accreditation and registration at a cost of R 375 K. The R375K spent on our professional fees must be measured against the 3 years wasted time and wasted effort and costs.
OUR HISTORY & TRACK RECORD
With our engagement, you will be accredited and operational within 4-6 months (almost certainly guaranteed) or do you do this on your own and still manage current workloads and priorities and still develop a new business model that is highly intricate, involved and detailed in all aspects of its academic and physical requirements.
And even with all of this place, there is no guarantee of success due to inexperience and not knowing the rules of the game. The CEO, Kay Naidu knows the rules of the game, which has been tried and tested over 30 years and will serve as your core strategic partner in this new business development, with some 114 college success stories across all accreditation authorities.
KAY NAIDU - RESUME & ENDORSEMENTS
KAY NAIDU - CURRENT INVOLVEMENT
Kay is currently involved in 3 core business units as follows:
I Was I Is I Am - CEO - Private Education Consulting
Global Examinations Board - CEO - National Exam Board for Umalusi Council & Department of Higher Education & Training
Global Education Universe - Bursaries, projects and funded Training for Disadvantaged Students
KAY NAIDU - PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT
Kay was previously employed in various professional roles such as:
Council on Higher Education - Auditor & Programme Evaluator
Umalusi Council - Evaluator / Monitor for more than 450 private colleges in SA / Member of Umalusi ACC
South African Bureau of Standards - SABS Auditor
institute of Management Consultants & Master Coaches of South Africa - Professional Member
Various SETAS - Registered Assessor / Moderator / Skills Development Facilitator / Design
Connect with Kay on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kay-naidu-45213134/
Before the establishment of I Was I Is I Am, Kay was employed in various functions and roles such as :
Farrar Jeena CA (SA) - Trainee Auditor - 6 months
Allied Accounting SA - Trainee Accountant - 8 years
PC Training & BUSINESS College - Deputy CEO - 22 Years - 80 campuses nationally, with 25,000 students across 64 programmes. Note that PC Training is now rebranded as "Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology (Pty) Ltd".
Innovatus FET College - 11 Franchised Colleges offering National Certificate Vocational accredited by the Umalusi Council, various SETAS and registered by the Department of Higher Education and Training - rebranded in late 2019 before COVID. The Head office was closed due to a conflict of interest with the national examination board mentioned above - the Global Examinations Board. The law requires that you are not allowed to run a college and be a national examination body within the same qualifications.
Innovatus Campus (Pty) Ltd - served as the franchising arm of the Innovatus FET College brand and was endorsed by the Franchise Association of South Africa (FASA) and the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). Franchise agreements were on a 5-year renewable basis and after 10 years of operations, franchisees were allowed to rebrand in light of COVID-19 discovered by us as a threat in late November 2019.
