With the growth of online schools, access to international curricula is not only in higher demand, but is becoming increasingly easier to access...
Rebecca Pretorius 14 Jan 2021
Thanks to the advancements in modern-day technology, it was possible for organisations to react quickly to the major disruptions presented in 2020. However, many were stuck having to MacGyver their way into the digital learning space...
Michael Hanly 6 Jan 2021
Given the tough economic times, the Pride Factor Online Academy has launched with five courses, three of which will be available for free as long as learning institutions are closed...
Evan-Lee Courie 28 Apr 2020
In his state of the nation speech in 2019, President Ramaphosa pledged to ensure that within the next five years, every 10-year-old child would be able to read for meaning. I applaud this vision, but realise it's not without its challenges and government cannot do this alone...
Josephine Buys 22 Jan 2020
Benjamin Franklin once said: "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." In a world defined by flux, education itself is the only certainty of 100% return - and sometimes the only lifeboat we have to remain relevant in a world tossed by constant change...
Adi Stephan 6 Jan 2020
With the lack of access to science apparatus and equipment for experiments in public schools, Mbangiso Mabaso developed SI Realities, a virtual science laboratory...
Evan-Lee Courie 9 Dec 2019
Technology continues to disrupt every aspect of our lives. One sector that is benefitting from this disruption is education and training. The rise of online learning platforms continues to make studying more accessible and convenient to students and employees...
Desiree Gullan 30 Jul 2019
Visual storytelling is fundamental to the human experience, and one of our oldest forms of expression...
Glenn Gillis 17 May 2019
The spate of incidents, in recent years, involving offenders posing risk to the safety of learners across various schools in South Africa calls for some serious action to be taken...
Pine Pienaar 12 Mar 2019
Our current challenges that include perpetual spoiler Eskom throwing shade at our economy should not distract us from South Africa's impressive achievements...
Devon Meerholz 7 Mar 2019
We live in an increasingly connected world. The technologies, both emerging and established, that connect us, have the power to influence and reshape the ways in which we live, work and learn...
Simon Goldstone 22 Jan 2019
According to American developmental biologist, Dr. Bruce Harold Lipton, the brain of a child under the age of seven is in a lower vibrational frequency, a state called theta, imagination...
Neo Rantele Kuaho 7 Jan 2019
Higher Education in South Africa has undergone many changes over the past few decades, with local and global trends continuing to influence the sector...
Yusuf Karodia 7 Jan 2019
Kenyan startup Angaza Elimu is attempting to transform education by addressing the problems of inefficient classrooms and inadequate educational material...
Tom Jackson 4 Oct 2018
As technological advancements continue to drive the global economy, linking the two aspects of learning - literacy and skills development - has become essential...
Jackie Carroll 14 Sep 2018
In early 2018, Media Works and academic publisher Juta and Company launched Effective Leader, a course that aims to help aspiring employees become great leaders...
Jackie Carroll, Juta and Company 14 Aug 2018
South African ed-tech startup SkillUp Tutors has launched an online lesson space that allows tutors to conduct lessons with students anywhere in the world...
Tom Jackson 4 Jul 2018
People across Africa face considerable challenges - many of them existential. But, without the right devices, connectivity, and skills, those who badly need their problems solved often can't access available solutions...
Greg Morris 8 May 2018
With the Seedstars World Summit taking place on Thursday, 12 April 2018, the organisers have announced the final 65 finalists that will get the chance to pitch their ideas on the global stage. 20 out of the 65 finalists are from Africa...
Ilse van den Berg 11 Apr 2018
We need to grow emerging, small-scale farmers while developing a young and vibrant group of agripreneurs who are looking further into the future, where their more advanced skills and understanding of technology will provide them with a wealth of exciting and dynamic careers in this industry...
Cari Coetzee 26 Feb 2018
Design Indaba speaker Mark Kamau is a Kenyan on a mission to connect everyone in Africa, and then the rest of the world, to the internet...
Louise Burgers 26 Feb 2018
Nigerian e-library startup Panacea has launched its Android app, which allows users to rent books, search for study mates and create book clubs...
Tom Jackson 15 Feb 2018
Education is food for the mind. It nourishes the brain. It develops intellectual and emotional maturity. Collectively it creates innovative people who improve their economy...
Duduzile Mkhwanazi 12 Feb 2018
