UCT students receive Google scholarship awards

Two University of Cape Town (UCT) students have been awarded the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarships for 2012. Joyce Mwangama, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering, and Maletsabisa Molapo, a master's student in computer science, were named among the 70 recipients from universities in Africa, Canada, the Middle East and the US. 23 May 2012 09:47

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

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

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

GIBS is Africa's best business school - UK Financial Times

The University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) has achieved the top ranking among South African and African business schools in the annual UK Financial Times Executive Education rankings. 22 May 2012 11:55

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

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

Greenpop launches launches internship, volunteer programmes

Greenpop has announced the launch of its environmental volunteer and internship programmes. These programmes offer a rewarding experience to people on their gap year or career break, students seeking to work in the environmental industry, or anyone who would like to add more meaning to their holiday in South Africa. 28 May 2012 11:18

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

Become employable without experience

Positions requiring experience from applicants, while applicants can't gain any experience without first having had a job, is a situation that has been frustrating job-seekers for ages. But there are ways to make oneself employable and gain experience without having landed a position in formal employment first, an education expert says. 15 May 2012 10:08

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

CIMA CBA test centres to increase to 27 in eight provinces

Two years ago CIMA (The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) decided to migrate its global Certificate in Business Accounting computer-based assessments to the Pearson VUE platform. The migration will be completed by the end of June, 2012, and exam centres will be included in places such as Nelspruit and Upington. 22 May 2012 11:51

Gauteng schools invited to enter comp

Smart Young Mindz, Gauteng's leading competition aimed at stimulating interest among learners in the fields of mathematics, science, technology and entrepreneurship, is open for entries. The Expo and prize giving will take place in October 2012. 22 May 2012 11:42