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Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: Original Careers; Published: 08 August 2007; Last Updated: 03 December 2015

Age: 18

What are you studying at The International Hotel School? Hospitality Management

What Year are you in? 1st year

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: Original Careers; Published: 08 August 2007; Last Updated: 03 December 2015

Andrew van Heerden

Age: 22

What are you studying at The International Hotel School? Hotel Management

What Year are you in? 1st Year

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: Get Educated; Published: 03 August 2007; Last Updated: 26 February 2016

Q: I matriculated in 2005. My true passion lies in nutrition, dietetics homeopathy, and in any health sciences. Unfortunately I regret so much, having left math’s and science in grade 10, do you have any information on where I could add these subjects from where I left off, and preferably full-time or with the help of a personal tutor? I am currently studying 1st year- tourism management as this is all I was qualified to do, I feel that my future is bleak and worthless because I have a dream in life that I cannot fulfil. Please help as time and money are running out. Yours gratefully.

A: Thanks for your query. Firstly, in order to address your dilemma, you need to understand the context. What you did was to end your engagement with maths and science at the end of the General Education and Training (GET) phase. You then entered the Further Education and Training (FET) phase with subjects that did not allow you to progress in the career path that you are passionate about. What you need to do is locate a specialist FET college that offers maths and science. Completing these courses will be the equivalent to having studied maths and science as part of your “matric package”.

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: Ultimate Careers; Published: 08 August 2007; Last Updated: 18 February 2016

In swashbuckling fashion the Lass who started off as a video game and moved onto the big screen won the latest vote on FirstStep.co.za. Croft picked up 29,7% of the votes in true heroic style!

Coming in second was the choice “I have no idea who Sir David Attenborough is!?” with 29,1% of the votes! Kind of worrying so we decided we will do a feature article on the great man himself. Keep a look out for it! In the meantime read up on him on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough

Details: Written by OriginalSteps; Category: Get Educated; Published: 03 August 2007; Last Updated: 26 February 2016

Q: Good day to you, please tell me how I would go about becoming a training and development officer/manager. I have studied HR and covered this module, I'm currently working as a recruitment consultant, how do I make this transition?

A: The training and development sector is booming, and broad enough to have many entry points. If you are in to full-time study, most of S.A.’s major universities offer some form of development studies (located within industrial psychology and education faculties, amongst others).