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Educo Solutions has opened two new learning centres in Soweto, offering free education to unemployed South Africans between the age of 18 and 28... read
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DR LOHYD TERRIER
In the wake of what might be the pinnacle of learning from experience, behold: Experiential Training is coming and here stay... Read
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The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation, in collaboration with the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and International Trade Centre have launched the Executive Master in Internationalisation and Trade programme... Read
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ISSUED BY SACAP
Still unsure what to do with the coming year? SACAP's (The South African College of Applied Psychology) term 2 intake means it's not too late to advance your studies... Read
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ISSUED BY GORDON INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS SCIENCE
The Spirit of Youth programme is a forum that aims to create and facilitate a high-impact and innovative peer-to-peer learning platform for learners to define and voice their vision of South Africa... Read
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The first-ever South African Springbots team participated in the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Detroit, USA from 24 - 27 April 2019... Read
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Cell C's Take a Girl Child to Work is one of South Africa's largest collaborative acts of volunteerism, with more than 550 organisations to host girl learners aged 13-18 in their workplace over three days this year... Read
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South Africa is currently undergoing a shortage of teachers. The teaching profession is said to be going through a recruitment crisis. This means there just aren't enough graduates for the teaching profession... Read
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To celebrate South Africa's rich diversity, the Federation of Governing Bodies of South African Schools (FEDSAS) has launched a social media campaign that emphasizes the wonder of being unique... Read
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TEBOGO MOCHINE
At over 25%, South Africa's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world. Although alarming, this figure is cast in a different light when one takes the qualifications of those looking for work into account, demonstrating that South Africa's employment crisis is actually an education crisis instead... Read
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As the world races into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, digital skills shortages have become a major challenge... Read
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ISSUED BY WITS LANGUAGE SCHOOL
Learning any new language takes a lot of dedication, practice and time, but all of that pays off when you are able to express yourself in a new and exciting way... Read
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Large scale gold mining in sub-Saharan Africa has reduced infant mortality in nearby communities, with rates falling by 50% among those born within 10km of a gold mine... Read
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African economic growth has in general been driven by public infrastructure investment and the expansion of services to a largely underserviced population. However, fintech is increasingly receiving attention from both private and public sector... Read
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SINDY PETERS
With community and collaboration the key drivers of the co-working revolution, disruption in the traditional office space market seems all but inevitable... Read
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AUBREY HRUBY
Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa's unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent's young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed... Read
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The SA Innovation Summit has launched ANDZA, a competition for entrepreneurs to win investment funding and acceleration... Read
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Kaspersky Lab has opened its call for papers to be submitted and showcased as part of its 2019 Industrial Cybersecurity Conference... Read
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Internationally, major contributors to the governance discussion use the same tone about gender and ethnics diversity in boardrooms. They highlight the lack of diversity - even though progress has been made in recent years - and find a correlation between board performance and diversity in terms of growth, performance and value creation... Read
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DANIEL KELLY
The South African athlete, Caster Semenya, has lost her case against the athletic governing body, IAAF, which means that she will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels if she wishes to continue competing internationally in running events... Read
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INGRID WOOLARD
It's well-established that South Africa has one of the most unequal income distributions in the world... Read
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 TSIBA Business Schol in partnership with B360, presents a FREE workshop on Solution-Focused Coaching by international experts Daniel Meier & Elvira Kalmar: learn how to drive effectiveness in your workplace. Read more >>The Edge Group International Expo - 14 May 2019, Cape Town | 15 May 2019, Hilton | 15 May 2019, Tongaat | 16 May 2019, Johannesburg Want to study abroad? Come along and meet international universities to discuss your options. Meet us in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg from 14 to 16 May 2019. Read more >> |
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