Your First Year of Varsity : A Survival Guide for College and University

About to start varsity? Just started college? Then this book is for you!

Beginning academic life after high school is exciting – a fresh start that will set foundations for the rest of your life. You’ll discover new ideas, meet new people and try new things. You’ll also have to become an independent adult, and that can be scary. Shelagh Foster and Lehlohonolo Mofokeng will lead you through all the rules, demands, behaviours, skills and culture shifts that will turn you from a schoolkid into a viable player in higher education.

Learn how to:

·         Write clearly and study smartly

·         Have safe relationships

·         Balance your responsibilities, your health and your social life

·         Manage your time, your money and all those academic demands

·         Not get kicked out!

Let Shelagh and Lehlohonolo help you understand this new world, and how to adapt, grow – and graduate. Ignorance is not bliss. Being prepared is.

Shelagh Foster has more than 25 years’ experience in the communications industry as editor, writer and writing training strategist. She holds an Associateship in Speech and Drama (Teachers) with Trinity College London. She spends much of her time offering workplace preparedness skills to jobseekers and new employees, and is the author of Your First Year of Work. Lehlohonolo Mofokeng is a Master of Education candidate from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg as a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar. He writes for News24 Voices on education-related issues and also for Mail & Guardian’s Thought Leader blog. He is an aspiring world-class township-school commerce teacher.