Fast Facts on our Students

• Ignition students have maintained an average pass rate of at least 85% since 2015
• Up to 16% of courses are passed with distinction
• Each student has a staff mentor and a volunteer mentor with whom they meet monthly
• 75% of our students are studying towards a degree. Others are studying diplomas, national certificates or undertaking learnerships

Our students are finding work in industries as varied as microbiology, HR, estate agency  admin, airline ground crew, oral hygiene and interning at Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres International). We continue our mentorships during this first year of employment.

Our students that graduated are fully qualified in their chosen fields of auxilliary social work, fitter & turner, end user IT/office administration and economics.

This is a wonderfully stark contrast against an article published in Business Day in March 2017. Click here for article 

“The Department of Higher Education released a report in 2015 highlighting that 47.9% of university students did not complete their degrees. Black students had the highest drop-out rate, with 32.1% leaving in their first year”

This is a wonderfully stark contrast against an article published in Business Day in March 2017. Click here for article 

“The Department of Higher Education released a report in 2015 highlighting that 47.9% of university students did not complete their degrees. Black students had the highest drop-out rate, with 32.1% leaving in their first year”