Campus of Performing Arts to open in Kwazulu-Natal

Campus of Performing Arts (COPA) was founded in 2001 and is a Contemporary Music College with campuses in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. Their courses are taught by trained facilitators who are also music industry specialists and professional musicians. This gives their students one of the most rounded and intensive practical programmes currently available anywhere in the world.

COPA offers full-time and part-time courses in; Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals and Sound Technology (including Music Production / Sound Engineering or DJ) and Music Business. Students are not only trained in their chosen instrument, but also in modules such as Music Business and Stage Craft to ensure that they are well prepared for a successful career in the music industry. Each campus boasts state-of-the-art facilities with a recording studio, a technology centre, a performance venue and practice facilities for use by its students.

All courses offered by this unique institution are accredited locally and articulate using RPL into qualifications offered internationally. They are registered locally by the Department of Education as an FET college and a Private HET institution. Full accreditation by the CATHSSeta also allows COPA to train previously disadvantaged individuals in learnership (as and when Government SETA Funding permits), with courses found on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). Right now COPA is provisionally registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training until 31 December 2014 as a Private Higher Education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration Certificate No. 2011/HE07/004.

Internationally, COPA has signed a franchise agreement with the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in the UK, which means that COPA also offers a full complement of ACM courses which are internationally accredited using RPL at the FET level. This allows COPA learners to transfer to any of ACM’s international partners to continue or further their studies although conditions do apply for this. To supplement their Local Higher Education programmes COPA has an agreement with the University of Chichester in the UK through RLP for students to obtain recognition internationally.

In 2012 Campus of Performing Arts (Pty) Ltd will be opening a campus in Morningside, Kwazulu Natal.

This campus will offer NQF2 National Certificate: Music Industry Practice (Performance), NQF3 National Certificate: Music Industry Practice (Performance) and NQF4 Further Education and Training Certificate: Music Industry: Sound Technology (Production) Module 1 of 2.

Further courses will be added as the need arises.

For more information or to book an interview contact them on 0860 COPA SA or visit their website (www.copasa.co.za)