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IBM launches free online learning platform in Africa
IBM launches free online learning platform in Africa
IBM has launched its $70 million (approximately R945 million) digital education initiative, “IBM Digital - Nation Africa”, aimed at building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills on the continent... read
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Your eight-point checklist for choosing student digs
Your eight-point checklist for choosing student digs
Upon acceptance into a university far from home, one of the top items on that to-do list is finding accommodation... read

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Reach students as they start the new academic year

Khethi Ngwenya

As students head off to university and college across South Africa, brands need to make sure that they tailor messages that are suited to them... read
Distance Learning
#BizTrends2017: The next wave of technology transforming the classroom
#BizTrends2017: The next wave of technology transforming the classroom

Nirvani Dhevcharran

Imagine you are a high school learner struggling with the textbook in front of you. You point your smartphone and ta-da – a video pops up on screen... read
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#DesignIndaba2017: Luis von Ahn announced as speaker
The guy who co-invented CAPTCHAs, who co-founded the ingenious language-learning app, Duolingo, and who sold two projects to Google in his 20s, is going to be speaking at Design Indaba next month... read
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Cipla bursary scheme now open for entries
Cipla bursary scheme now open for entries

Issued by Cipla

Cipla SA, South Africa's third largest pharmaceutical company, is encouraging all students in their first, second or third/final year, who want to make a difference in the world by becoming a part of the pharmaceutical industry, to apply for a bursary at the company... read
Calling innovative developers: enter the Wits Campus Personal Navigator Challenge
Calling innovative developers: enter the Wits Campus Personal Navigator Challenge
The Wits Campus Personal Navigator Challenge is calling on developers and entrepreneurs to develop innovative systems to assist students with visual and physical disabilities to independently navigate Wits' vast campus... read
Parents under pressure
Parents under pressure

Taschica Pillay

Thousands of students and their parents are having to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for studies at private tertiary educational institutions as full-house signs go up at universities around the country... read
NSFAS starts appeals process for rejected students
NSFAS starts appeals process for rejected students

Michelle Gumede

Thousands of prospective university students' funding applications have been turned down by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) for the 2017 academic year... read
Global business education is the best antidote to economic nationalism
Global business education is the best antidote to economic nationalism

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

The Global Network for Advanced Management, a network of 29 leading international business schools dedicated to driving innovation and creating value through exchange and engagement, will celebrate its fifth anniversary in April... read
Bespoke textbooks offer printers respite from the revenue-eliminating e-book model
Bespoke textbooks offer printers respite from the revenue-eliminating e-book model

Vaughan Patterson

Publishers have made their bread and butter off textbooks for longer than students have endured on microwave noodles and crackers... read
Cape Wine Auction to support education
Cape Wine Auction to support education

Eugene Yiga

Eugene Yiga spoke to Andi Norton, who coordinates the beneficiaries of The Cape Wine Auction, to find out about the upcoming event which takes place on 10 and 11 February at the Anthonij Rupert Wine Estate in Franschhoek. read
#BizTrends2017: SA's graduate labour market - trends and issues
#BizTrends2017: SA's graduate labour market - trends and issues
The #FeesMustFall movement is running riot, and free tertiary education is the demand, but is the higher education system already producing too many graduates...? read
#BizTrends2017: Machine learning trends in SA for 2017
#BizTrends2017: Machine learning trends in SA for 2017
Machine learning as a subset of artificial intelligence is an emerging trend in South Africa, with demand for data scientists rising sharply... read
Primary & Secondary Education
The Indaba Education Fund has provided educational materials, as well as upgrades to the classrooms and gardens at the Lynedoch Early Learning Centre.
Cape Classics establishes Indaba Education Fund
Cape Classics, a New York-based wine importer, has established the Indaba Education Fund (IEF), a fully accredited 501(c)(3) organisation which provides early childhood teacher training, learning materials, and educational infrastructure to young, at-risk children living in the South African Winelands... read
FutureLearn Group announces new acquisition
FutureLearn Group announces new acquisition

Issued by Impak

The FutureLearn Group, which boasts brands that provide innovative and accessible education solutions, recently announced the acquisition of Basic EduCAPS, a provider of CAPS aligned teacher material... read
Skills Training
WildArk acquires first wildlife conservancy in SA
WildArk acquires first wildlife conservancy in SA
Conservation organisation WildArk, together with guide training organisation EcoTraining, has acquired its first wildlife conservancy known as ‘Pridelands'... read
Business
Kruger with his latest book released with Penguin, looking at the concept of strategic rule-breaking for businesses.
SONA and strategic rule-breaking: The art of doing the unexpected for amplified results

Douglas Kruger

Rules are a great idea. Except when they aren't. If you're fascinated by the idea of breaking rules, last Thursday's amazing travelling circus show, the State of the Nation Address, will have struck you as a veritable feast of chaotic delights. Wearing your proudly South African cap, your emotional reaction may have been somewhat different, but let's put national dignity aside for a second and think about the idea of strategic rule-breaking... read
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Dean - Theology - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced Dean: Theology (Ref. THE00/040/0217). Applications close 10 March 2017. Read more >>

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