RAISING ASPIRATIONS /
Dumie Matsebanane
DUMIE DEVELOPS
HIS CAREER
D
UMIE MATSEBANANE, A FORMER
HND COACHING AND DEVELOPING
SPORT STUDENT AT THE COLLEGE, IS
ABOUT TO START UNIVERSITY AT SRUC.
same course, and he recommended it to
me. We started off at the sports centre in
Largs, but for the HND moved to the Skills
Centre of Excellence in Irvine.
Here he explains how he came to the
College in the first place and how he found
the course.
At first I thought college would be
daunting, because I’ve been out of
education since 2000, so that’s a good
13 years in between. But everything was
seamless, the support that I got from
lecturers and students made it quite
easy to make the transition from full-time
employment to full-time college.
“I was working full-time as a recruitment
adviser but I lost my job. Within two
months I started college.
I’m sports-orientated, I’ve always had an
interest in sports anyway. So when I lost
my job I thought I’d never have a better
opportunity to get some qualifications in
that field. One of my friends was doing the
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What sports am I interested in? You’d be
better asking what am I not interested
in! The main ones are football, cricket
and tennis for me. But I have a good
THE STUDENT VOICE: AUTUMN 2015