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I chatted to Gareth Olivier about his journey, his students, his vision for learning, adding value to society, being useful, how students should see failure, and a bunch of other fascinating bits and pieces that you'll find interesting if you're on the CA(SA) study route in South Africa.

I’ve taken points of interest from our chat, and indicated where in the above video you’ll find the discussion:

Gareth's background (0:34)
Are you happy? (For students to consider!) (3:58)
selfauthoring.com recommendation (4:13)
Stuff students should think about in terms of their career plans (6:10)
Are you working towards adding value to society? (7:58)
Intro: CA Connect Programme (9:00)
Exam Centres (13:10)
Intake for Feb and July (14:40)
The Bridging programme (15:58)
Will a UNISA student pass at CA Connect? (18:44)
Students who struggle to approach lecturers (24:18)
How to help struggling students? (26:06)
You need a community (29:00)
Learning about what learning actually is! (31:00)
What would you say to current 3rd years? (31:42)
Talking about failure (32:38)
"We all have a bucket of failure" (34:16)
How is CTA / PGDA different to undergrad? (34:44)
To a student who's used to cramming... (37:09)
What do we mean when we say "You don't know your basics" in CTA? (37:59)
What's the use / value of what you're studying? Are you learning to be Google? (38:45)
What do you want to say to a new CTA / PGDA student? (41:49)
Bug your lecturers! (45:04)
What support do you offer students? (42:52)
What is CA Connect's vision? (48:39)
Learning should be fun! (55:09)
Contact details (56:09)

Gareth recommends that all CTA students go through selfauthoring.com as part of your CTA prep