You're not starting over — fit it around work.
Experience counts. The Desk is built around routes that fit a full life — part-time, evening, and learnerships that pay while you learn — with the money side laid out honestly, and honest labels on what's still thin.
- In work, studying next to it
- Years of experience behind you
- Need study to fit a full life
Coming back to study with a job and a life, the real risk isn’t ability — it’s picking a route that doesn’t fit around work, or missing that you could earn while you learn.
- Full-time isn’t the only way in — part-time, online and evening routes exist but rarely surface first.
- Learnerships and apprenticeships pay you while you study, and get overlooked.
- The money maths — employer funding vs self-pay — is where most plans quietly break.
- Track learnerships, courses and applications in one honest placeLive
- Routes that fit around a job — the Desk frames them; a study-mode filter on the index is comingPart-built
- Learnerships & apprenticeships explained — browsable listings are comingPart-built
- Employer-funding + self-pay math on each routePart-built
- Credit for the experience you already haveIn build
The working-adult (Earner and Returner) Desks are live for tracking, route framing and the money picture. The programme index can't yet filter by part-time/evening/distance and learnership listings aren't browsable yet — we say so here rather than let you find out inside.
Tell it your situation
In work, years of experience behind you, study that has to fit a full life.
See routes that fit around a job
Part-time, online, evening — and learnerships that pay while you learn.
See the money honestly
Employer-funding and self-pay math per route, with what’s still being built shown plainly.
Say you’re 29, working full-time, and want a qualification without quitting your job.
- Tell the Desk your situation — it frames your options around work: part-time, evening, earn-while-you-learn.
- It lays out the employer-funding and self-pay maths on each (the full TVET/learnership cost picture is still being built — it says so).
- It tracks what you apply to in one place.
You come back to study on a route that fits your actual life — with the money side in the open.
Illustrative — a hypothetical, not a real user.
My matric is from years ago — does it still count?
Yes. A National Senior Certificate doesn’t expire — institutions read a 2010 matric the same way they read this year’s. What changes is the routes that fit your life now, and that’s what the Desk is built around.
Can I study while working?
Yes — the Desk is built around routes that fit around a job: part-time, evening, and earn-while-you-learn. The programme index can’t filter by study mode yet; we say so rather than guess.
What about the cost?
Employer-funding and self-pay math are shown per route. The full TVET/learnership cost picture is still being built — we mark exactly where it stands.
Do I get credit for my experience?
Recognition-of-experience is on the way — it’s not live yet, and we’ll tell you honestly when it lands. Your years working are already counted on your Desk.
Built for you. Not just matrics.
Prospectus reads where you actually stand — your stage, your marks, your means — and renders the routes that are genuinely open. Honestly, and only what's real.