Eduloan gives recognition to deserving CPUT student
By Ilana Abratt Photograph: Vincent Landey of the Faculty of Education, Dean of Students Cora Motale, Prizewinner Mario Issacs, Eduloan CEO Johan Wasserfall and Director of Finance Vernon van der Linde
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Education and Social Sciences student Mario Isaacs was recently awarded a laptop computer from educational finance organisation Eduloan, in recognition of his sterling academic record and positive approach to his studies.
Eduloan CEO Johan Wasserfall handed over the laptop at a small ceremony on Bellville Campus on 10 March 2010. The ceremony was also attended by Dean of Student Cora Njoli-Motale, Director of Finance Vernon van der Linde as well as Vincent Landey, Head of the Further Education and Training Department on Wellington Campus.
Isaacs, who obtained cum laude results during all years of his degree, intends to teach computer application technology. He said the new computer would therefore be extremely useful during his internship.
“If you work hard, anything is possible,” he said.
According to Landey, Isaacs holds, as his personal philosophy, the concept: “If you want to be the best, you must do more than the rest.”
Issaacs and Landey both thanked Eduloan for their longstanding support of CPUT students and for the contribution the organisation is making to education.
Eduloan has financed R2 billion in loans to approximately 500 000 South African students since it was founded in 1996.
The organisation is currently embarking on an initiative in which each of its partner institutions has been given to opportunity to bestow a laptop on the student that the university considers to be most deserving of the prize.
Selected students at the University of Pretoria, Central University of Technology and Walter Sisulu University received laptops from Eduloan earlier this year.
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