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Eduloan: Opening Doors Across All Markets

Since 1996, Eduloan has helped over 720 000 South Africans to unlock potential by furthering their education. Eduloan is dedicated to offering a variety of loan solutions to students, parents, businesses and corporates as well as civil employees to further their education in order to unlock potential and to contribute to a brighter South Africa.

Whether you, your child or your employee is looking to complete school, graduate from college, technicon or university or if you require a solution to invest in your employees’ skills, we have a product to make education more accessible:

	Students and parents	Bursars and sponsors	Business and corporates	Civil employees	Schools and Tertiary institutions
Tuition loans for fulltime and part-time studies at school, university, collage and technicon	l	l	l	l	l
Further education opportunities to up-skill	l	l	l	l	l
A refresher course at a training facility	l	l	l	l	l
Study related equipment (including laptops and tablets)	l	l	l	l	l
Accommodation loans	l	l	l	l	l
Salary deduction	l	l	l	l	l
Fund and bursary management	l	l	l	l	l
Training fund management			l	l	l
Expense management			l	l	l
SCI fund management			l	l	l
Student attendance management	l	l	l	l	l

We have allocated over R 3, 7 billion in study loans and continue to pioneer products to allow South Africans to further their education, despite the current financial climate.

For more information and to find out how Eduloan can assist you to unlock even more potential, visit our website, contact out call centre 0860 55 55 44 or sms ‘EDU’ to 32150 and we will call you back!

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Providing Affordable Access to Education for Your Child

To assists you with your obligations in terms of school fees, you can now consider a loan with Eduloan. We offer a study loan solution to meet your children’ tuition fee requirements throughout your child’s educational journey - from school right through to university or college. Our loans cover tuition fees, textbooks, and any other additional study tools like tablets and laptops as well.

Because Eduloan understands the impact of economic changes on the consumer, we offer a range of school loans to assist parents in meeting their obligations in terms of school funds. The costs of schooling extends beyond just the fees. We know that you often have to consider using personal loans, credit cards or access bonds to pay for fees, but with an Eduloan school loan, you can rest assured that the following is covered:

I need a loan for…	Does Eduloan cover it?
School fees, Textbook	a
School uniforms, School Tours	a
Extra lessons	a

With schools including technology in classrooms, we also offer a range of solutions that will equip your child with a laptop, tablet, connectivity and printing equipment. This approach helps enhance the overall learning experiences of a child.

Our school loan solutions are affordable and repayable with fixed monthly instalments with no deposit. The school fees will be paid directly to the school, so that you have one less administration-concern.

If you would like to find out more about our loan offers, please visit our website, you can also call our call centre on 0860 55 55 44 or sms ‘EDU’ to 32150 and we’ll call you back!

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Blended education.... an intervention for the new generation?

Being bombarded with the infinite amount of information has changed the way we communicate process information and think. Innovation and creativity is essential in approaching new methods of education. 

Education in the digital age is based on how learners are changing the ways they interact, and their increased ability to create, share and organise their own learning.

The truth of the matter is that we need to find a way to teach with the available tools that makes it easier for them to learn. More and more teachers are finding that this breakthrough method is blended learning.

Blended learning combines the best of online learning with traditional teaching and is vast becoming the ‘go-to’ tool for both secondary and tertiary institutions.

For instance, most educators in blended classrooms use some version of a course management system application to connect with students online. Blackboard and Moodle are perhaps two of the best known applications used today. Through platforms like these, students can access video of lectures, track assignments and progress, interact with educators and peers, and review other supporting materials, like PowerPoint presentations or articles.

Applications like these give educators the freedom of alternating between online and the more traditional teaching methods.

Traditionally an educator would use their class time to lecture and facilitate supporting material, then give tasks and projects for students to do on their own time.  Within the blended method, educators can still use their class time to lecture and facilitate material, but could already have shared this information on an online portal for students to review at home and on their own pace beforehand. Class time can now be used to discuss and engage on this content. This creates a much richer environment for content to be discussed and field related question to be asked, focusing on the individual rather than the mass.

Rather than making learning frustrating and impersonal, students are empowered through blended learning to participate, not only with the teacher, but also with other students. Instilling such habits at an early age will result in positive change for all.

Although blended education is a relatively new concept it’s an important one to be aware of.  This model has the potential of not only changing the secondary and tertiary learning environment but also career development and even continuing education in the future which in effect pose positive change for the entirety of the population and bodes well for the future economy.

The advantages of distance education

With the need to education becoming increasingly more, universities have to find innovative ways on how to hold up the masses.

Although sometimes considered as second best, distance learning has become the answer to many a prayers and the solution to the mass universities are struggling with.

Not just a can you continue with your everyday working routine and tend to your family and other commitments, but you will be able to attend to a full time study course.

What is the value of distance learning, the answer to that is simple, it depends solely on you as the student.  The advantages of distance learning however allows for:

Flexibility

Probably being the biggest advantage of distance education is that depending on your diary and the responsibilities you have you can fit your study time to a time that best suits you. 

Saves time and money

These courses are most of the time a whole lot cheaper for the same quality material, you will also be saving on university accommodation as well as on commuting.

Convenient

Having the luxury of studying for your own home, you can sit in you PJ’s and do the required tasks.  It’s sometimes as easy as dropping your assignment off at the post office and or submitting it online.

Self and community empowerment

Changing you career and future prospects wherever you are not matter how rural the area.  Being from a rural area will allow you to educate those around you as well showing them that everything is possible.

24/7 access to study material and other students

Be included in university life through contact with other students through online learning environments, as well as through direct contact with your lecturers via the provided forums, through emails or by phone.

Although the over-dependence on technology, the lack of discipline or the fact that there is little to no direct contact with faculty could be a few disadvantages of distance learning, many studies have shown this to be a valuable and efficient way of education.   Just believe in yourself and make the best of the opportunities presented.