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Mission and social involvement

It is the group’s mission to make a positive difference in the lives of people, primarily through educating them, achieving the highest standard of career-focused education, and assisting them in securing gainful employment.  The group is committed to providing the highest quality learning excellence and service to its learners and communities, and to building life-long learning partnerships.

The group strongly believes that maintaining good corporate citizenship through social involvement in the communities in which we work and live is a fundamental aspect of an effective and sustainable corporate strategy. As such, CTI and MGI have committed to serve and involve communities in South Africa in order to uplift their social and educational wellbeing.  

The group’s social involvement stems from wanting to support others in need because it is in a position to do so, and it is a labour of love for staff and management.  The group’s commitment to reaching out beyond its students, contributes directly to the social wellbeing of others in the community.  It is against this backdrop that CTI has, through the dedication of one of its directors, Mr Tshepo Magabane, developed policies, mechanisms, and systems to ensure the effective and efficient execution of its social responsibility in an equitable and sustainable manner.

Annual charity drive

Through its employees, CTI and MGI hold an annual charity drive for needy communities in South Africa. February 2006 saw the launch of the charity drive through the donation of Information Technology equipment and other resources to underprivileged schools. The charity drive has since become an annual event and communities across the country benefit. Besides the national project, various campuses get involved in charity projects.Bursary fund

CTI has set up a bursary fund to assist students in need of a meaningful education. CTI aims to play its part in helping to close the skills shortage gap in South Africa through its own bursary fund. CTI has budgeted to award bursaries to registered students to the value of R4 000 000 per annum.

Company-sponsored projects

The group has a clear policy with regard to the contribution of resources (physical and human) towards schools and organisations in need or charity programmes within our own communities. Our future projects aim to be involved in supporting educational activities in one of South Africa’s provinces regarded as previously disadvantaged.

Academic Advisory Council

To ensure that the group continuously offers the highest quality education to its students, the group has appointed an Advisory Council consisting of industry experts. The members of the Advisory Council constitute both current employees, and active members in industry and can thus provide industry-specific advice to the company. The members are: Prof Marvin Kambuwa, Dr Mamsie Motshekga-Sebola, Mr Tshepo Magabane, Mr Castro Obed Mathivha, Mr Darren Fox, Dr Tom Brown, Mr Derrick Zitha,  and Ms Sharene Menteath.

Quality assurance

CTI has developed a rigorous quality assurance policy over the years. Besides employing its own development unit that researches and develops course material, other internal and external bodies were established to guarantee that course material, content, and the delivery of academic service is of the highest standard. These bodies include the Academic Forums Quality Assurance Committee, Service Delivery Monitoring Programmes, external moderators and subject specialists as well as obtaining and sustaining accreditation from external bodies and institutions such as the British Accreditation Council (BAC), the Council on Higher Education (CHE), the Department of Education (DoE), Edexcel (UK), international examination bodies, leading UK and South African universities and local and international awarding bodies.