UCT Careers Service, Career Guide, 2021

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AirStudent: Giving peers “wings” to fly

Ndabenhle By Niémah Davids & Karin van Laeren Ntshangase and Lwanda Shabalala AirStudent identifies students that study far away from their and have to travel to and from campus at the start and co-founded the hometown end of each term. It then groups students together based on their student-centred travel similarities to capitalise on certain cost-effective commercial travel business bulk-buying booking principles. AirStudent.

Where did your idea for AirStudent come from? Ndabenhle: I am from Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), and

studying at UCT meant that I was always travelling between campus and home at the end of each term. This travelling cost escalates fast and gets very expensive. I realised that I wasn’t the only one going through this process – approximately 60% of students study outside of their hometown.

Ndabenhle Ntshangase and Lwanda Shabalala

www.airstudent.co.za @airstudentSA

I put pen to paper and came up with the idea to start AirStudent – and plug a huge gap. AirStudent’s role is to group travelling students like myself together in order to leverage the bulk-buying principles that exist, and to provide students with more affordable travelling fare options.


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Resilience, stress tolerance & flexibility

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Technology design and programming

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Emotional Intelligence

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Leadership & social influence

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Creativity, originality & initiative

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Become an (intra)preneur

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3. Pantsula with a purpose:

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2. The TAQA digital library

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1. AirStudent: Giving peers "wings" to fly

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Our Entrepreneurship Intervarsity finalists

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Lessons learned in entrepreneurship

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Whay do our grads say?

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Grad Gallery: Dr Najma Mohamed

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Grad Gallery: Palesa Nombula

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Grad Gallery: Tebogo Mokwena

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Grad Gallery: Philippa King

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Grad Gallery: Jody Africa

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Grad Gallery: Dr Precious Chikura

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Grad Gallery: Dr Babalwa Jongihlati

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Grad Gallery: Lee Shacksnovis

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Grad Gallery: Qobo Ningiza

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Grad Gallery: Dayne Kemp

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Grad Gallery: Seranya Moodley

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Grad Gallery: Abduraoaf Sandan

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Grad Gallery: Natalia Dambe

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Grad Gallery: Zak Essa

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Grad Gallery: Nikhal Narismulu

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Grad Gallery: Divya Vasant

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Grad Gallery: Ify Umunna

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Grad Gallery: Jade Orgill

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What to consider before accepting a job offer

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My virtual internship

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pages 83-84

How to find work during a pandemic

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Prevent remote burnout

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Networking in a virtual world

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What you need to know about a PHD

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Critical thinking

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Complex problem-solving

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Active learning & learning strategies

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