The University of Cape Town (UCT) has launched an online high school, making it the first university in Africa to extend into the secondary education sector...
The events of the past year created a tipping point for the education industry, accelerating the necessity for online learning overnight...
Shan Radcliffe 13 Jul 2021
A new locally produced university textbook is helping South African students learn about the intricacies of the local marketing landscape...
It's clear how technology has been a saving grace for many learners during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa...
Jackie Carroll 25 Jun 2021
As schools and other tertiary institutions require a vast amount of personal information, they will be heavily impacted by the PoPI Act...
In the first episode in this series with Wits Plus, Professor Beatrys Lacquet, the director and head of Wits Plus, shares the introduction of Wits Plus 2.0, the impact of the digital age on upskilling, and how part-time study can be achieved while working...
The market is saturated with conversations around learning, where the jargon of the day is either online, e-learning, digital learning or the latest being hybrid learning. Organisations and learning practitioners grapple with how "effective" the transfer of learning takes place in a digital world...
Omni HR Consulting 18 May 2021
The Telkom Foundation today announced the launch of Ignite - the new educational extension of its video streaming platform, TelkomOne - allowing high school students free access to STEM-based content...
The Covid-19 pandemic had a significant impact in 2020 on South Africa's schooling system...
Steven Lebere, Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation 16 Apr 2021
With the national energy around the matric results starting to settle, it is a good time to stand back and reflect. For us as educators and civil citizens, 2020 was a year like no other that any of us had ever experienced...
Adri Marais 15 Apr 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has paved the way for a hybrid model in education - but governments need to act so that progress from the past year is not lost...
The inaugural T4 Education Teacher Tech Summit will recognise the leading role teachers have played in developing digital and educational solutions during the pandemic...
The last year has made the rights enshrined in South Africa's Bill of Rights more relevant than ever before. Prior to Covid-19, many of us simply took the right to freedom of movement for granted, as well as the right to freedom of trade, to healthcare and to education...
Jackie Carroll, Optimi 31 Mar 2021
When it comes to getting a job, it's about more than just having technical, job-specific hard skills. Did you know that it's often the soft skills that separate an average candidate from a great one?...
