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UJ takes SA to Enactus World Cup 2016 in Canada
UJ takes SA to Enactus World Cup 2016 in Canada
A student team, comprising of 884-members, from the University of Johannesburg have been crowned the winners of the Enactus South Africa National Competition... read


E-learning
Free e-learning service for Telkom customers
Free e-learning service for Telkom customers
Telkom launched its new value-added e-learning service, Telkom e-Education, yesterday, 1 August 2016. The service is being offered to its existing and new mobile and fixed post-paid customers at no extra charge... read
Why education's silver lining could be in the cloud
Why education's silver lining could be in the cloud

Ernst Wittmann

As South African schools and universities struggle with the high costs of textbooks and other educational materials, technology continues to offer some compelling answers to these challenges... read
Higher Education
Language war hots up
Language war hots up

Henaaz Jamal

The fight to keep Afrikaans as a language of instruction at universities is hotting up, with the Higher Education Network vowing to join court cases over the issue as friends of the court... read
NMMU could offer pre-medical training courses next year
NMMU could offer pre-medical training courses next year
Students could be able to enrol for pre-medical training courses as early as next year at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, as it forges ahead with plans to open the doors to its medical school in 2020. read
Genetic counselling: Helping patients assess the risk of familial disease
Genetic counselling: Helping patients assess the risk of familial disease

Nicci Botha

With rapidly advancing science, many hereditary conditions can be pre-empted, and if not averted at least managed appropriately, and that's where genetic counselling comes in... read
Midrand Graduate Institute rebrands to Pearson Institute of Higher Education
Midrand Graduate Institute rebrands to Pearson Institute of Higher Education
Pearson South Africa today reveal the renamed and rebranded Midrand Graduate Institute (MGI) to students, parents, employees and business. MGI will now be known as the Pearson Institute of Higher Education (PI). read
Sunrise Productions' Animation School bursary selects first recipient
Sunrise Productions' Animation School bursary selects first recipient
Tyler Solomon is the first recipient of the Cape Town-based film production and animation studio, Sunrise Productions' bursary... read
CIGR - Prof Opara and Prof Juliszewski
SU prof chosen to lead agricultural engineers worldwide
Prof Umezuruike Linus Opara, SU professor and research chair, has been elected as the incoming president of the International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering... read
Successful collaboration
Successful collaboration

Issued by False Bay College

Access Trust and False Bay TVET College celebrated a successful collaboration at the TVET GAP graduation ceremony hosted on 27 July at the Khayelitsha campus... read
Helping your child find the right career
Helping your child find the right career

Issued by False Bay College

Jobseekers who undertake no skills training or further study after leaving school have very little chance of finding gainful employment. In 2014, 57% of youths without matric and 38% of matriculants were unemployed... read
Primary & Secondary Education
Bridge-builders of future figure it out
Bridge-builders of future figure it out

Riaan Marais

Budding engineers, from high schools all over the region, put their construction skills to the test at the weekend, when they took part in the South African Institution for Civil Engineering's (SAICE) Bridge Building competition. read
Five things every matric should know
Five things every matric should know
Kagiso Shanduka Trust (KST) recently visited five schools in Free State's Motheo District to deliver the first in its series of Grade 12 Schools Talks. The talks aim to help matric learners understand the challenges and opportunities facing them in their immediate future, as they prepare for the tertiary stage of their education... read
School shoes for students of Injonga Primary
School shoes for students of Injonga Primary

Issued by False Bay College

Inspired by the Mandela legacy, the SRC of False Bay TVET College for the Khayelitsha campus, as part of their SRC Project, is committing to keeping the legacy alive by campaigning for school shoes... read
Skills Training
Hunting for The Insurance Apprentice 2017
Hunting for The Insurance Apprentice 2017
The search for season three's The Insurance Apprentice is on, with applications open till 30 September 2016 for the 2017 installment of the show... read
Business
#WomensMonth: Leadership lessons from local lady bosses
#WomensMonth: Leadership lessons from local lady bosses

Leigh Andrews

It takes more than 'sugar and spice and all things nice' to make it in today's tough economy - especially if you're bravely setting out as a lady boss. Read this advice from three successful female entrepreneurs before you get started... read
Jobs offered
Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer - Higher/Adult Education - Cape Town
Ayanda Mbanga CommunicationsStellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced associate professor/senior lecturer: Higher and Adult Education (Ref. OPV01/236/0616). Applications close 12 August 2016. Read more >>




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