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The Valenture Institute was launched in 2019 as a "pioneering online high school" with a global curriculum that elite universities recognise. [1]
Founded by a member of the same family that introduced "Get Smarter" at UCT,[2], the Venture Institute refers to itself as a “global private online high school” where students are encouraged to study from anywhere in the world.[3]
Valenture offers four levels of qualifications:[4]
- Junior High
- The International General Certificate of Secondary Education
- International Advanced Subsidiary Levels
- International A-Levels.
This Cape Town based start-up that CEO Rob Paddock (co founder of Get Smarter) [5] and COO Amy Johnson [6]set up in 2019, [7] with Professor Robert Lue (EdX Harvard and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University) as chancellor[8], is informed by the “science of online learning”.[9] After Lue’s death, in November 2020,[10] UCT's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng.[11] announced a partnership with this startup in July 2021 and launched UCT Online High School, (UCTOHS) which applied an open education license to their curriculum, offering “a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license” to use Valenture Institute’s education materials.[12]
The Valenture Institute also received 7 million dollars funding from GSV Ventures (Coursera investor), to set up boutique school campuses, [7] in
Valenture Institute’s value proposition is to address conventional school’s limitations with a blend of education technology, social learning and inter-institutional collaboration.[18] They launched the venture with UCT in Jan 2022, with 4000 enrolled students[19] and Yandiswa Xhakaza [20]as the principal / director of the school. [21] By the end of 2022, Ms Xhakaza had decided to step down and Banele Lukhele had replaced her in the role of Executive Head of School and Chief Academic Officer.[22]
The stated aim of the Valenture Institute was to be the biggest online high school by 2028.[23] Sanlam Insurance has partnered with UCT Online High School to offer 90 scholarships [24] and South African music artists collaborated to generate a school anthem entitled "We are the future". [25]
In 2023, Valenture Institute was recognized as a global 150 GSV innovator [26] and Paddock was nominated (with two others) as All Africa Innovator of the Year:[27]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.overdrive.co.za/valenture-institute-aws-wafr-and-remediations-on-a-multiple-workload-infrastructure/
- ^ https://weblearning.co.za/blog/get-smarter/
- ^ Hogg, Alec (2019-12-10). "Disrupting SA education: High school from home and get into Harvard, Stanford, Oxford". BizNews. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ https://www.itweb.co.za/article/valenture-institute-fuels-expansion-plans-with-r114m-funding/GxwQD71ZlGgMlPVo
- ^ Hogg, Alec (2020-07-15). "Meet Valenture Institute founder Robert Paddock, on online education boom". BizNews. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "Cape Town's Valenture Institute is 'global edtech leader'". Ventureburn. 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ a b "South African edtech startup Valenture Institute secures $7 million from Coursera investor | Africa CEO Voices". Sep 16, 2020. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ Hogg, Alec (2019-12-10). "Disrupting SA education: High school from home and get into Harvard, Stanford, Oxford". BizNews. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ "UCT Online High School". University of Cape Town. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ Meng, Xiao-Li (2021-07-30). "Remembering Robert Lue: Giving Students "Not a Data Science Course, but a Data Science Life"". Harvard Data Science Review. 3 (3). doi:10.1162/99608f92.5461cafb. ISSN 2644-2353.
- ^ Diphoko, Wesley (2021-07-25). "UCT partners with edutech start-up, the Valenture institute, to offer high school education". IOL. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ https://static.valentureinstitute.com/uct/UCT+OER+_+T%27s+and+C%27s.pdf
- ^ "SA edtech startup launches first campus in Johannesburg". Ventureburn. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "Valenture Institute Tech-enabled high school to open in 2021". 2020-09-02. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "A look inside South Africa's first boutique high school which will open in 2021". Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ Hardy, Leah (2020-08-12). "Is this new online-only private school the future of education?". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ Nicholl, Ronan Mc (2020-09-16). "South African EdTech firm Valenture receives $7 million investment". Global EdTech. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "UCT ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL AND VALENTURE: Take the lead in shaping the future of learning". Issuu. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "UCT Online High School rewinds 2022". www.news.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ https://www.news.uct.ac.za/images/userfiles/downloads/media/2021_09_20_OnlineHighSchoolPrincipal.pdf
- ^ Johns, Lynnette (20 January 2022). "Meet the principal & director at UCT Online High School". Financial Mail. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ^ "Executive Head Of School & Chief Academic Officer: Banele Lukhele". www.uctonlinehighschool.com. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ "One moment, please..." www.uktechnews.info. Retrieved 2025-04-27.
- ^ "UCT OHS Scholarship Programme Inspires Hope". www.sanlam.com. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ SummerRaine (2022-01-24). "SA's Top Award Winning Artists Come Together to Create the First Ever School Song Dubbed 'We Own The Future'". SA Music News Magazine. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ Monzon, Luis (2023-03-23). "Cape Town edutech firm honoured among the world's best". Hypertext. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
- ^ Correspondent, Sandton Times (2023-06-21). "11th All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA) To Celebrate Exceptional Leaders In Sun City - Sandton Times". sandtontimes.co.za. Retrieved 2025-04-28.
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