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Applications open for January 2015 intake of Digify candidates
Digify, the Google and IAB SA-backed three-month digital bootcamp run by youth agency Livity Africa, is calling talented 18-to-25-year-olds to apply for its January 2015 intake... read more>>



Education
NECT clarifies its role in "fixing" education
Sizwe Nxasana, Chairperson of the National Education Collaboration Trust, says its role is not to run education, but to support government in improving the quality of education in South Africa... read more>>
SA urged to embrace the free-market economy
"Something I hope South Africa will accept and embrace is the fact that true entrepreneurship happens in free-market economies" said Dr Herman Mashaba, delivering his inaugural Herman Mashaba Lecture... read more>>
E-learning
[Mobile360] Geeks versus princess engineers

Jessica Taylor

"It was always this awkward looking guy who was tech savvy, solved a big problem and got the girl in the end ... I consider myself a geek. A geek can look like this too. A geek can wear pink dresses and can wear sparkles and be just as geeky as anybody else." - Margaret Burgraff... read more>>
[Mobile360] Enhance African mobile skills or miss the global digital citizenship wave

Leigh Andrews

There's a swelling global wave of participatory citizenship. While it's definitely the way forward and enhanced by mobile, there are unique challenges to be faced in Africa... read more>>
Higher Education
CIMA releases salary survey results
The majority of CIMA members and just over half of CIMA students in South Africa are satisfied with their income, reports the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants after releasing its 2014 annual salary survey... read more>>
Irish president to engage with youth of Soweto
The president of Ireland, President Michael Higgins is visiting the University of Johannesburg's (UJ) Soweto campus today Monday, 17 November to address the youth on Challenges and Opportunities in Africa... read more>>
New Chair of Occupational Hygiene at Wits University
Anglo American is investing R15 million in a new chair, to be known as the Anglo American Endowed Chair in Occupational Hygiene at the Wits School of Public Health... read more>>
Primary & Secondary Education
StreetSmart diners raise R220k for street kids
StreetSmart South Africa, dedicated to helping street children rebuild their lives through donations from restaurants in the Western Cape and Gauteng, has handed over R220,000 to The Kusasa Project and Home from Home... read more>>
Peer-based township school's results suggest alternative model's potential
Through its disruptive learning model that combines peer-based learning, quality teaching and technology, the independent African School for Excellence is proving... read more>>
How response-driven innovation can address challenges in ECD
The Early Childhood Development Conversation 2014 created an opportunity for ECD stakeholders to discuss how response-driven innovation can address these challenges without disrupting the current ECD system... read more>>
Social Feed feeds hungry school kids through social media
What if brands bought media that could make a real difference - like feeding thousands of hungry school children healthy meals every single day? It's in answer to this question asked by Hellocomputer that Social Feed was born... read more>>
Skills Training
Education: Filling the skills gap

David Furlonger

Advertising agencies and colleges say they must step up their talent-spotting and training efforts to provide the industry with the skills it needs... read more>>
Local student receive awards from USB
Two students of the Small Business Academy (SBA) Development Programme offered by the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) have received awards for their small businesses... read more>>
M-Net Magic in Motion Academy provides internship opportunity
As a means of investing in skills development and nurturing new talent, television giant M-Net, with its newly established M-Net Magic in Motion Academy, is offering previously disadvantaged... read more>>
Government
R200m in textbook funds reallocated to salaries, school furniture
Thousands of Eastern Cape pupils face being without textbooks next year after the Education Department used funds for learner-teacher support material (LTSM) to pay teacher salaries and buy furniture... read more>>
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