Volkswagen, NUMSA launch bursary fund

Volkswagen Group South Africa has partnered with Volkswagen's National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to launch the John Gomomo Bursary Fund. The funding for this bursary scheme comes from the Work Security Fund which provides training to retrenched employees and unemployed persons. The fund also provides scholarships and bursaries as well as adult based education (ABE) training. 28 May 2012 11:26

Access to education should be an employee benefit

[Michelle Branco] Recent statistics coming from America on the factors contributing to the country's high levels of debt should serve as a wake-up call for South Africa, particularly the lengths to which their employees go in order to access education financing. 28 May 2012 11:14

Promote Africa but address challenges too, says Zuma

While the African continent should promote Afro-optimism and Ubuntu, challenges such as possibly not meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline must be addressed, says President Jacob Zuma. 25 May 2012 10:29

Tertiary institutions cannot meet 2014 engineering target, ECSA

The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) aims to increase South Africa's engineering graduate output from 2008's 7 888 students to 15 000 students a year by 2014, Engineering News reports. 24 May 2012 17:05

Liberty gets involved with primary school education

Last year, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) released the results of their Annual National Assessment (ANA) which focused on the numeracy and literacy levels for Grades 3 and 6. The results were alarmingly low with Grade 3 literacy and numeracy at 35% and 28% respectively and Grade 6 levels at 28% for literacy and 30% for numeracy. 24 May 2012 16:42

Nzimande to clean up EC colleges

Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande has appointed a team to investigate maladministration and corruption at Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in the Eastern Cape. 24 May 2012 13:14

Reviewing charity winners' year

As the countdown for the 2012 Shoprite Checkers Women of the Year winners ticks down, a review of last year's winners shows how effectively the prize money has been used to grow communities. 24 May 2012 06:28

Vega School

A Vibe at Vega

The Vega Interschool Brand Experience (VIBE) held on Saturday, 19 May, was a huge success and there were a multitude of phenomenal ideas. This inter-school competition was a new initiative by Vega School of Brand Leadership to expose the youth to the world of branding and what it would be like to work in the advertising industry, building brands in an innovative way. 22 May 2012 09:42