Education & Training

Our Education & Training team has a wealth of experience in the education and training sector, specifically with regard to the acquisition, financing, governance and organisational structure of schools and universities.

Education & Training Services

Our services include:

  • Advising entities listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with regard to listings issues, funding, acquisition and establishment of educational institutions.
  • Assisting private equity and other investors with regard to all aspects of acquisition and funding of schools and universities, including the performance of due diligence investigations in respect of private higher education service providers in the context of corporate transactions.
  • Advising schools and universities on regulatory issues including registration as an education provider, employment matters, constitutional documents, disciplinary procedures, real estate issues and governance.

Education & Training Brochures

Services

Education & Training Services

Our services include:

  • Advising entities listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with regard to listings issues, funding, acquisition and establishment of educational institutions.
  • Assisting private equity and other investors with regard to all aspects of acquisition and funding of schools and universities, including the performance of due diligence investigations in respect of private higher education service providers in the context of corporate transactions.
  • Advising schools and universities on regulatory issues including registration as an education provider, employment matters, constitutional documents, disciplinary procedures, real estate issues and governance.

Brochures

Education & Training Brochures

Education & Training Lawyers

Our Education & Training team has a wealth of experience in the education and training sector, specifically with regard to the acquisition, financing, governance and organisational structure of schools and universities.

Our Education & Training Lawyers

Our Work

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Curro Holdings Limited

Advising Curro Holdings Limited, the listed holding company of a number of newly established schools, with regard to their listing on the alternative exchange of the JSE (AltX) early in 2011, including advising them on funding and competition issues.

Foreign University

Acting for a foreign university in obtaining an order against the Department of Higher Education and Training confirming that foreign universities are entitled to offer higher education in South Africa through local providers. This led to the amendment of the Higher Education Act. We subsequently made representations to
Parliament regarding the amendments.

Private higher education service providers

Advising a number of the leading private higher education service providers in regard to regulatory issues and assisting them in their interactions with the Department of Higher Education and Training.

Successfully appealing decisions by the Department of Higher Education and Training

Successfully appealing decisions by the Department of Higher Education and Training to cancel the registration of certain private higher education providers, in accordance with the provisions and regulations of the Higher Education Act.

Assisting our clients in criminal proceedings

Assisting our clients in criminal proceedings brought by the Department of Higher Education and Training arising out of alleged contraventions by our clients of provisions of the Higher Education Act in regard to the provision of higher education without proper registration or accreditation of qualifications.

Independent Schools Association of SA

Representing the Independent Schools Association of South Africa in regard to their interactions with the Department of Basic Education and in regard to the various issues which impact on independent
schools, including issues over property rates levied by local municipalities against independent schools.

Representing various individual independent schools

Representing various individual independent schools in regard to issues arising in the operation of the schools including disputes with parents (both individual and collective), property disputes with neighbours, alleged human rights abuses arising out of school policies and internal school disciplinary issues.

Our Work

Curro Holdings Limited

Advising Curro Holdings Limited, the listed holding company of a number of newly established schools, with regard to their listing on the alternative exchange of the JSE (AltX) early in 2011, including advising them on funding and competition issues.

Foreign University

Acting for a foreign university in obtaining an order against the Department of Higher Education and Training confirming that foreign universities are entitled to offer higher education in South Africa through local providers. This led to the amendment of the Higher Education Act. We subsequently made representations to
Parliament regarding the amendments.

Private higher education service providers

Advising a number of the leading private higher education service providers in regard to regulatory issues and assisting them in their interactions with the Department of Higher Education and Training.

Successfully appealing decisions by the Department of Higher Education and Training

Successfully appealing decisions by the Department of Higher Education and Training to cancel the registration of certain private higher education providers, in accordance with the provisions and regulations of the Higher Education Act.

Assisting our clients in criminal proceedings

Assisting our clients in criminal proceedings brought by the Department of Higher Education and Training arising out of alleged contraventions by our clients of provisions of the Higher Education Act in regard to the provision of higher education without proper registration or accreditation of qualifications.

Independent Schools Association of SA

Representing the Independent Schools Association of South Africa in regard to their interactions with the Department of Basic Education and in regard to the various issues which impact on independent
schools, including issues over property rates levied by local municipalities against independent schools.

Representing various individual independent schools

Representing various individual independent schools in regard to issues arising in the operation of the schools including disputes with parents (both individual and collective), property disputes with neighbours, alleged human rights abuses arising out of school policies and internal school disciplinary issues.