Cecilia Van Zyl

Johannesburg Area, South Africa South Africa

Senior lecturer at UNISA

Education

I love my job as a distance education lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of South Africa because I believe that I can contribute to improve the lives of others on a huge scale. We have more than 10 000 students in some of our undergraduate modules per semester, which provide me with the opportunity to touch the lives of many persons in all walks of life. I studied towards a B.Com degree and a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Economics and Accounting at the University of Potchefstroom. I was a high school teacher for a year and then started working at the University of South Africa, a distance education university. I joined the Department of Economics in 1990 as a r...