PRIMARY & SECONDARY EDUCATION NEWS

Product offering geared towards improving the quality of education

 ISSUED BY: IMPAK

Impak, a leading curriculum and service provider, has introduced a new offering to the education market - it has made its innovative education solutions available to schools as a product-only option.

"While we pride ourselves on providing our national network of registered schools with a comprehensive product and service offering, we realise that a need for quality learning material exists outside of our network," says Stefan Botha, CEO of Impak. "To help address this need, we are now offering our products to schools who are not registered Impak centres." 

The company's products only offering to schools include:

• Leading-edge CAPS aligned curriculum: Impak offers curriculum in over 170 subjects in both English and Afrikaans from Grade R to Grade 12, and provides learners with all the tools they require to successfully complete their academic year. As part of the products-only offering, its study guides are available in printed format for all grades.
  
• Comprehensive facilitation material: Impak's facilitation material is designed to provide comprehensive support to teachers. It includes lesson planning, facilitation guidelines, as well as planning of all formal assessment elements. As part of the products only offering, the company's facilitation material is available in printed format for all grades.
  
• Standardised assessment elements: Impak provides all summative and formative assessment elements per subject, and its assessment elements are developed annually by a team of subject matter experts and are fully aligned with CAPS requirements. As part of its products-only offering, Impak offers an assessment package for Grade 4 - 9. It also offers electronic access to portfolio and memorandum books, as well as editable electronic versions of the June and November examination papers and memorandums.

Explains Botha: "The quality of learning material is intrinsically linked to the standard of education and rate of educational achievement. As such, our study guides are designed to encourage self-directed learning, active participation and critical thinking while our facilitator's guides empower teachers to focus on teaching. For schools already boasting the necessary facilities and a team of experienced teachers, our products complete the educational trinity." 

Impak was established in 2002 as a curriculum provider to home education learners. The company has experienced remarkable growth over the past 13 years and last year expanded its offering to include a broad range of education products and services for schools and tutors. Impak currently serves more than to 10,000 learners and more than 300 schools and tutors across South Africa. PSG Private Equity, a 100% subsidiary of the PSG Group, owns a majority share in Impak.