Draft:Valenture Institute
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The Valenture Institute was launched in 2019 as a "pioneering online high school" with a global curriculum that elite universities recognise. [1]
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Founded by a member of the same family that introduced "Get Smarter" at UCT,[2], the Venture Institute refers to itself as a “global private online high school” where students are encouraged to study from anywhere in the world.[3]
Valenture offers four levels of qualifications:[4]
- Junior High
- The International General Certificate of Secondary Education
- International Advanced Subsidiary Levels
- International A-Levels.
This Cape Town based start-up that CEO Rob Paddock (co founder of Get Smarter) [5] and COO Amy Johnson [6]set up in 2019, [7] with Professor Robert Lue (EdX Harvard and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University) as chancellor[8], is informed by the “science of online learning”.[9] After Lue’s death, in November 2020,[10] UCT's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng.[11] announced a partnership with this startup in July 2021 and launched UCT Online High School, (UCTOHS) which applied an open education license to their curriculum, offering “a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license” to use Valenture Institute’s education materials.[12]
The Valenture Institute also received 7 million dollars funding from GSV Ventures (Coursera investor), to set up boutique school campuses, [7] in
Valenture Institute’s value proposition is to address conventional school’s limitations with a blend of education technology, social learning and inter-institutional collaboration.[18] They launched the venture with UCT in Jan 2022, with 4000 enrolled students[19] and Yandiswa Xhakaza [20]as the principal / director of the school. [21] By the end of 2022, Ms Xhakaza had decided to step down and Banele Lukhele had replaced her in the role of Executive Head of School and Chief Academic Officer.[22]
The stated aim of the Valenture Institute was to be the biggest online high school by 2028.[23] Sanlam Insurance has partnered with UCT Online High School to offer 90 scholarships [24] and South African music artists collaborated to generate a school anthem entitled "We are the future". [25]
In 2023, Valenture Institute was recognized as a global 150 GSV innovator [26] and Paddock was nominated (with two others) as All Africa Innovator of the Year:[27]
