Mr Fabian Arends is a research specialist in the Education and Skills Development research programme. He has a BA(Hons) in geography and an MBA from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Before joining the HSRC, Mr Arends was an educator at the Westbury Senior Secondary School in Johannesburg. He was later employed in the Education Management Information Systems unit in the Gauteng Department of Education, where his duties included numerous surveys, and the creation, updating and maintenance of a Geographic Information System.
Currently, Mr Arends' duties include data collection and auditing, the analysis and integration of quantitative and qualitative data, and the design of education indicators. |