Mrs Tyobeka is an educationist with extensive advisory and technical experience in the management of education, policy development, policy implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation in the public sector.
She has worked in Education both within and outside of government in South Africa for a total of 41 years.
Thirty-two of these were in Management and Leadership positions at various levels of the education system.
Throughout her educational career she attended schools with a history of producing some of South Africa’s most celebrated leaders: Lovedale College, Healdtown High School and Inanda Seminary in Durban. This sense of history and the desire to follow in the footsteps of those who had studied in
the same institutions further cemented Mrs T’s belief in the importance of education. Mrs T attended the University of Fort Hare where she majored in English and Psychology and went on to do a University Education Diploma (UED).
She completed her BEd at UNISA and her Masters focusing on the Management of Educational Innovation at Reading University in the UK. Along the way she collected a number of other diplomas, certificates and short courses at various universities including the University of London in the UK, the University of Pretoria, Harvard Institute of Education and Ohio State University both in the US as well as the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.