The Sport Management Department will help to strengthen physical education in disadvantaged primary schools in the Kensington area.

The department will develop an educational module on physical education with the primary aim to build the capacity of students to work in the school environment, and provide the opportunity for school educators to improve their skills in presenting physical education as part of Life Orientation in their respective schools.

This initiative forms part of the Caring Society (CASO) 3.0 Consortium, a project that aims to improve South African healthcare through knowledge exchange.

The project will see CPUT partner with the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape and several European institutions. These include Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, the Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium.

CPUT lecturer Chris Young, who coordinates the programme, says they will work alongside colleagues from the Western Cape College of Nursing (WCCN), with staff members from each department focusing on specific areas of the project.

Participation in this project, which will run until 2019, allows CPUT to contribute to international knowledge development in healthcare and the community, as well as the internationalisation of students through placements abroad.

Young says the programme is part of the European Union's Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the Higher Education programme and has been funded to the tune of more than €800,000.

Written by Kwanele Butana

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Three dedicated nursing students from CPUT’s Western Cape College of Nursing (WCCN) are gaining valuable training and experience in Europe as part of a new international project.

CPUT has teamed up with three European universities of applied science and two South African research universities for the new project, which is focused on the fields of healthcare and welfare.

Called the Caring Society (CASO) 3.0 consortium, the six participating partners have received a grant of more than €800 000 from the European Union’s Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education programme to help them achieve their goals.

CPUT’s WCCN and the institution’s Sport Management Department are participating in the project.

Three nursing students, Shihaam Barnes (Athlone campus), Molefi Dexter Shebi (Southern Cape campus) and Philicia Bloom (Worcester campus), recently departed for Europe, where they will visit Karel de Grote Hogeschool in Antwerp, Belgium and Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands.

Lecturer Karien Orton said that among other things the students would attend an interprofessional workshop in Belgium and visit a number of healthcare institutions in the Netherlands and Belgium.

She said that to be selected they had to meet a series of criteria including strong leadership qualities and a good academic record.
Participation in the project allows CPUT and the WCCN to contribute to international knowledge development in healthcare and the community, as well as the internationalisation of students.

The higher education institutions participating in the programme will focus on three pillars, which include the Patient Partner Programme, the Health and Lifestyle Programme and the Care for the Caregiver Programme.

The participating universities are: CPUT, University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, Avans University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, the Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Karel de Grote Hogeschool.

Written by Ilse Fredericks
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