About

about Online GED Prep South Africa

Every year the school system disrupts the education of thousands of learners. It fails to equip them with the skills they need to get a good job or to continue their education and training.

We’re changing this.

We’re saving people from obsolete education by offering a course based on 21st century research. It is aligned with college- and career-readiness standards for this millennium.

We’re helping people open new doors of opportunity through affordable, quality education.

Online GED Prep™ South Africa at Your Service

Online GED Prep™ is accredited by the GED Testing Service® and authorised to offer the online GED® learning material for students preparing to write the GED® tests. We offer guidance to help you with any or all of the following:

Change your life and enrol with Online GED Prep™ South Africa today!

Who are we? About Online GED Prep™ South Africa

Online GED Prep™ is a family-run enterprise.

Shirley Erwee

Shirley Erwee is a global homeschooling expert, who has been home educating her own 6 children (plus two others for a season) for over 20 years, since 1997.

In 2016, after years of recommending the GED® as a solution for homeschoolers and others needing to get a grade 12 equivalent, she launched Online GED Prep® South Africa to help candidates wishing to prepare for the GED® tests.

Shirley is also a home education activist and consultant, as well as a curriculum provider offering various other learning materials for South African homeschoolers, including the Footprints On Our Land programmes.

In 2014 and 2015 she authored two books on homeschooling in South Africa, namely Homeschooling the Primary Years and Homeschooling High School and she offers two series of webinars for parents starting home education: Starting Homeschooling and Homeschooling High School.

Shirley is a well-known expert in the local homeschooling community and a speaker at local and international home education events. She has also been interviewed by the media on numerous occasions on radio and TV programmes, such as Afternoon Express, SAFm, Ofm, Whalecoast FM as well as 567 CapeTalk and consulted by journalists of various South African magazines for their articles about home education.

Shirley Erwee on Afternoon Express
On set at Afternoon Express
Shirley Erwee on set of Afternoon Express, SABC 3
Interview at Afternoon Express

Global Home Education Conference
Global Home Education Conference, Moscow 2018

homeschool books
Parent books about homeschooling

As home education experts, we’ve served or been consulted by these organisations and media publishers on matters relating to home education in South Africa and globally. We support freedom in education.

In May 2018, accompanied by her husband Riaan, Shirley attended the 2018 Global Home Education Conference (GHEC), held in Russia in St. Petersburg and Moscow and she was a speaker at the 2020 GHEC.

In 2020, Shirley was nominated as the spokesperson for the Liberty in Learning Coalition in South Africa – a group of home education leaders, provincial representatives, curriculum providers and activists seeking to engage with the Department of Basic Education to protect and promote freedom in education for home educators and learning centres in South Africa.

Meet our team

Jonathan

Jonathan Erwee is our customer success manager. He handles enrolments and customer support.
Jonathan is a homeschooled graduate who completed the GED® in 2017 with top marks in all subjects.  He has an interest in robotics, electronics and programming.

Lucille

Lucille Erwee is our online marketing assistant. She was homeschooled all the way and completed the GED® in 2015. Read her GED® success story here.

Lucille is at university studying a Bachelor of Business (Marketing).

Kayleigh

Kayleigh Erwee is our graphic designer. Homeschooled from birth, she completed the GED® in 2019, the SAT in 2021 and she is now studying a degree in Communication Design.
She created all the icons for our new-look website and assists with marketing collateral.

We get you from where you are to where you want to be, efficiently.

Our online study programme focuses on the modern-day, essential skills you need, so you don’t waste time or money. It’s designed to enable everyone to be successful.

We’re healing learning.

Our online learning programme is based on an important belief that we encourage you to embrace:

Anyone can learn anything, if they can learn at their own pace, in an emotionally safe place.

In schools, the needs of the System supersede the needs of the individual. We offer a revolutionary learning experience –  personalised one-on-one tutoring, in an adaptive system that is customised to suit you. It assesses your starting level and figures out what you need to learn. Then it creates a personal learning pathway to ensure that you succeed.

Unlimited learning

Without a grade 12, you don’t have a ‘passport’ to go anywhere.

We’re taking away barriers so that you can continue on your lifelong learning journey.

We believe there is a place in this world, where everyone can be successful and we want to help you discover it.

Earn your GED® high school diploma with Online GED Prep™.

Develop the skills you need to find and keep a job, to study further or to start your own business one day. Get the ‘ticket’ to decide who you want to be and to go where you want to go.

We’re your education bullet-train.