Newsletter Subscribe
Enter your email address below and subscribe to our newsletter
Education
Share your love
New Virtual Career Expo Aims to Prepare SA’s Youth for the Working World
These past few weeks have tested South Africans like never before. We’ve dealt with a third wave crippling our already-overburdened healthcare system; ongoing load shedding catapulting our country into darkness; the closure of certain sectors as a result of the…
Digify Africa Launches WhatsApp Learning Platform Giving Free Access to Digital Skills
Online learning has made significant strides in Africa over the past decade, but access to resources and high data costs remain a persistent challenge for young people in marginalised communities. This means that many are still not able to take…
Nedbank & Amazon Commit to Providing Free Cloud Skills to Unemployed Youth in SA
Nedbank has joined forces with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide free cloud computing skills development and job training to unemployed youth through the AWS re/Start programme. AWS re/Start is a free, 12-week training programme, covering fundamental AWS Cloud and…
E-Learning Has Changed Education in Africa Forever
E-learning has changed the face of education forever, thanks to COVID-19, and there’s no going back to the way things were. At the beginning of the pandemic, education institutes across Europe, Africa and the Middle East had to adjust very…
Microsoft Partnered with SA’s Education Department to Train 25,000 Unemployed Youths
Department of Basic Education of South Africa partnered with Microsoft in providing digital skills training to 25,000 unemployed youth in the country. This partnership was fueled by the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI), which, the Department says, created more than…
Facebook Testing “Sabee” – A New Educational App for Nigerian Learners
Facebook’s internal Research and Development (R&D) team is reportedly working on an educational mobile app called Sabee. The app seems to be targeted towards learners in Nigeria when it becomes fully functional. The social media powerhouse first announced opening an…
Microsoft & SAtion Partner to Bring Digital Skills to 50,000 Unemployed, Disadvantaged South Africans
After the announcement this month of record-high unemployment figures in South Africa which paint a grim picture for the country’s youth, SAtion announces a new partnership with Microsoft to enhance South Africans’ employability in the digital age. The partnership’s online…
Uber South Africa is Offering 100,000 Free Rides to Get Teachers Vaccinated
The South African government has fast-tracked the vaccine rollout for teachers and staff at schools across the country. Educators and staff of schools will begin receiving their COVID-19 jabs on Wednesday 23 June in a two-week push project aiming to…
Vodafone and UNHCR Expand Connected Education for Refugees in Mozambique
Ahead of World Refugee Day (June 20), Vodafone Foundation and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), have expanded their Instant Network Schools (INS) programme – which supports over 94,000 refugee students and communities in four African countries – into Mozambique. Two…
SA Schools May Face Penalties for PoPIA Non-Compliance
With the third wave of COVID-19 crashing upon South Africans and amidst increasing calls for schooling to be temporarily suspended, it could prove helpful for educational institutions across the country to use the time away from teaching to put some…
How COVID-19 Has Changed E-Learning Forever
E-learning has changed. Much of this change is due to COVID-19, and there’s no going back to the way we were before, however, many organisations may want to do so. “COVID arrived and new technology came to the fore –…
Accelerated eLearning Adoption Could Contribute to More Impactful Outcomes in the Education System for Africa
The world of digital has broadened the play and fuelled greater expectations as it shifted the traditional perspectives around time and space. The proximity to the customer is incrementally getting shortened, while the expectation for service leans towards the now.…
mLab Announces the 20 participants Set to Take on the AgritourZA Limpopo Innovation Platform
mLab has joined forces with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to launch the AgritourZA Limpopo Innovation Platform. This initiative is expected to provide a space for 20 local pioneers…
Why Mobile Technology is Important to Rural African Communities
Mobile technology is at the heart of Africa’s digital journey thanks to its ability to provide communities with improved work and economic improvements. A great example of how access to online resources is The Haller Foundation’s award-winning mobile app —…
WeThinkCode Opens Applications for Software Programme
WeThinkCode has opened applications for its tuition-free, two-year software programming course which starts in July. The education institution revealed that there are just one hundred places are available – part of WeThinkCode’s plan to increase its total student intake to…
A boy who felt the Eswatini blues
“Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes” – a Cherokee proverb. Put one’s shoes on. Many people think that problem-solving is all about imagination and creativity. Sure, hypothetically it might be quite enough to…
