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About
- Sylff Program
  
  Cultivating leaders of tomorrow in countries worldwide
  
  Mission & Philosophy
  
  The goals of the Sylff Program and the leadership qualities it seeks to nurture
- Message from the Chairman
  
  Promoting peaceful and socially inclusive development
  
  Sylff Association
  
  Platform to bring all Sylff stakeholders closer together
- History
  
  Major milestones since the program's inception in 1987
  
  Contact
  
  Ask questions, offer comments, or come visit us in Tokyo
Institutions
Fellows
Support Programs
- Overview
- Research
  
  Research Grant (SRG)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support doctoral and post-doc fellows’ academic research activities in their field of expertise.
  
  Research Abroad
  (SRA)
  
  Up to US$5,000 to support research in a foreign country for a doctoral dissertation.
- Social Action
  
  Leadership
  Initiatives (SLI)
  
  Up to US$10,000 for social action projects and conferences/workshops initiated by fellows.
  
  Project Grant (SPG)
  
  Large-scale grants for projects with potential for substantial social impact.
- Networking
  
  Leaders Workshop
  
  Opportunities for intercultural group learning and leadership enhancement.
News & Voices
Administrators
Operation Manual
- Overview
- Conventional Scheme
  
  Guidelines on program and endowment management
- New Scheme
  
  For institutions wishing to focus on program operations
- Administrators Meetings
  
  Learn best practices and meet other Sylff administrators

Fellows Profile

Louis Benjamin*

University of the Western Cape

Project Grant

Education

Received Sylff fellowship in 2001.
Academic achievements, social engagement initiatives:
BA Social Work (Hons); B.Ed Hons; M.Ed Psych (Cum Laude); Phd | Director and Founder Member of Thinking Schools South Africa | Director and Founder of Basic Concepts Unlimited
Current affiliation: Health Professions Council of South Africa

Over the past 12 years Louis has worked as an independent educational consultant with a special interest in the cognitive development and assessment of young children (pre-primary to primary school years). He is the author of the Basic Concepts Programme© which was developed as part of his doctoral studies and which has been used throughout South Africa as well as in other countries. The programme was primarily developed to address learning backlogs of children from severely disadvantaged communities. Louis has trained over 1600 teachers as mediators of the Basic Concepts Programme and has established numerous multi year projects mainly in rural/disadvantaged communities and often in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education and other education trusts and NPO’s.

SPG2018: The programme starts in 2019 and will run for the next three years.

https://www.facebook.com/basicconcepts1/
https://twitter.com/basicconcepts1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-benjamin-a1145116/

To contact this fellow, email the Sylff Association at sylff[a]tkfd.or.jp (replace [a] with @).