Derek Springett

Education

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  UNISA

  1993 - 1997

  BCompt Hons Accounting and auditing Honours CTA

  I was 50 when I started to study to become a CA(SA). I achieved it in four years, the fastest possible time, it required that I skipped the first year of Honours and jumped to the 2nd - that was hair-raising! During the four years, I held down a full time job as a Managment Consultant with the audit firm that I subsequently came to own.

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  Imperial College, London Univ

  1971 - 1974

  BSc(Eng) Hons Electronics Upper 2nd Class Honours

  I left Maidstone Grammar School after O Levels and entered as an Apprentice with Elliott Brothers. I studied A Levels in the evenings at the local Tech and persuaded Elliotts to pay for me to read a BSc Honours degree at Imperial College, London. They had never done this before so I needed to make friends in high places. Not easy for a kid of 17! While at Imperial, I joined the illustrious Institution of Electrical Engineers as a Student Member. I was asked to act as student representative on… Show more I left Maidstone Grammar School after O Levels and entered as an Apprentice with Elliott Brothers. I studied A Levels in the evenings at the local Tech and persuaded Elliotts to pay for me to read a BSc Honours degree at Imperial College, London. They had never done this before so I needed to make friends in high places. Not easy for a kid of 17! While at Imperial, I joined the illustrious Institution of Electrical Engineers as a Student Member. I was asked to act as student representative on the Council and then as Student representative on the joint committee of the Mechanical, Civil and Electrical Engineering Institutes. I had to buy a Dinner Suit because that was the uniform of the Institutes. It came in useful in my later life and lasted me about 20 years! Show less