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Huawei and partners to empower South African youths
Huawei, along with their channel partners, hosted a certification award ceremony, as well as interview sessions for the Huawei Authorised Information and Network Academy (HAINA) graduates from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) at the Huawei Innovation and Experience Centre in Sandton,…
African First: UCT Offers Fintech Degree
 The University of Cape Town (UCT) is now the first University on the African continent to offer a degree in fintech. The degree is specifically designed to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to embrace the technological revolution…
SAP Africa Code Week to invest in Nigeria’s teachers
Founded in 2015, ACW seeks to empower African youth with coding skills through hands-on and playful learning. Spearheaded by SAP, world leaders in enterprise software, and with the support of UNESCO, YouthMobile, the Cape Town Science Centre, the Galway Education…
Networks Unlimited supports SA’s evolution of the digital classroom
The growing threat of ransomware today looms across a number of different industries – healthcare, retail, hospitality, finance and insurance, government, professional services, technology and manufacturing – and education is not immune. However, unlike some of the other aforementioned industries,…
SAP Africa appoints new Head of Education
SAP Africa today announced the appointment of Goutam Dev as the new Head of Education for Africa. Dev, who has been with the company since 2005, has held various leadership roles in services, sales, strategy, and general management across a…
Time for Education Institutions to Harness Power of Mobile
More students access the internet on their mobile phones than laptops or tablets. Education that does not embrace this reality is not meeting students where they are, an expert says. “A survey of students in preparation for the rollout of…
Get a UK MSc Public Health through UNICAF
With the limited number of doctors, healthcare practitioners and nurses, who are on the frontline of medical care provision in Africa, efficient management of resources becomes crucial in developing a sustainable national public healthcare programme, that can adequately cover the largest…
Harnessing the power of technology in SA’s broken education system
While it’s misguided to start hailing technology as the silver bullet to the plethora of challenges faced by South African education – particularly when many schools lack basic amenities like electricity – there is growing hope in tech’s potential to…
Rwandan entrepreneurs offer free app development training
Three technology entrepreneurs, Ildephonse Mungwarakarama, Theogene Niyonsenga and Jerome Habimana, have launched a programme to teach app development skills to young Rwandans. Code for Good aims to bring technology to youth in order to improve academic outcomes. The programme is…
Google to train 10 million Africans
Google has announced plans to train 10 million people in sub-Saharan Africa over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable. The company also hopes to train 100,000 Africans to develop world-class apps, with an initial…
UNICAF – Study Programmes That Work for You
Studying a specific subject no longer means that you just read books and learn material by heart. For today’s graduates, not comprehending the deeper meaning and the practical application of the information received, can result in entering the job arena…
Africa Code Week to Scale Coding Literacy
The Ministry of Basic Education in Botswana has partnered with SAP and trained over 400 local teachers to code, in a series of Train-the-Trainer sessions in preparation for SAP Africa Code Week 2017. The training sessions took place at Gaborone Senior…
SAP Skills for Africa launches first East African chapter
SAP Skills for Africa today launched its first-ever East African programme at an event held in Nairobi, Kenya. The skills development initiative between SAP Africa, its customers, and various public and private sector partners, focuses on training and certifying graduates…
Mwabu tackles education crisis in South Africa
Teachers need to be trained to use technology effectively in the classroom environment. It is for this reason that education technology provider Mwabu has launched a new CAPS-aligned product for primary schools and teachers in South Africa. “The truth is,…
Microsoft to digitalise Eastern Cape’s Rural Schools
Technology can transform the educational experience at an individual student, group or class level, but when the borders of affordability and access get expanded, the benefits obtained get magnified, as schools are empowered to deliver more entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators.…
Teachers will be the true heroes of Africa’s success story
As South Africa bids goodbye to Youth Month, it’s a good time to evaluate how the country, and Africa as a whole, is faring when it comes to educating its young people. Considering that, according to the Business of Education…
