In August of this year, UCT Online High School became the most affordable, fully accredited online school in Africa to offer the Cambridge International curriculum with Tessa Venter heading up the Cambridge International curriculum as Head of School. As a teenager, Tessa always said that she would never be an educator. Tessa spent her childhood growing up on school campuses across Southern Africa, her dad was a teacher and ‘school’ was all she had ever known. In true teenage style, the idea of following one of your parents into the same profession was definitely not okay.
Instead, Tessa decided that she wanted to be a broadcast journalist who specialised in news and so she went off to study Journalism and Media Studies. Four years and two degrees later, Tessa and her now husband moved to South Korea to teach and it was here that she finally realised that education was where she was supposed to be.
UCT Online High sat down with Tessa, asking her a few less formal questions to get to know her a little more and find out who she really is, outside of her important role as UCT Online High School’s Head of School for Cambridge International curriculum