Education: South Africa 

• 500 000 school pupils have dropped out since Covid-19 started - report.
• SA can reduce its school dropout rate using simple tools, experts say.
• Thousands of ECD centres ‘let down’ by Department of Social Development over Covid relief.
• To Sir, with hate: The murder of Cape Town teacher Thulani Manqoyi sends shockwaves through education landscape.
• Call for Early Childhood Development practitioners to be included in World Teachers’ Day celebrations.
• SA needs to rethink the ways maths is taught in pre-schools - expert.
• Phoenix residents demand for principal to be fired after teacher is caught on camera kicking a 2-year-old at local crèche.
• Why GenZ and GenAlpha need to do school differently.
• All you need to know to ace your exams.
• Grade 11s here are 5 tips to carry you through to Matric.
• Don't Close Our Little School, Parents Tell Eastern Cape Education Department.

Language and Literacy

• Linguistic diversity must be embraced for all to reach their full potential.
• Multilingualism and equity are the essence of the New Language Policy Framework.
• Celebrating diversity to create a unified Unisa.
• Resource material in isiXhosa for prospective students.
• Universities need active leadership on language policies.
• Should Afrikaans be declared South Africa's indigenous language?
• Reading frees us from the conditions holding us back.
• Indigenous languages at forefront of new higher education policy but major compliance challenges remain.
• SA needs a collaborative efforts in solving its illiteracy crisis.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• How Open Educational Resources Can Boost Equity in the Wake of the Pandemic.
• Rising textbook prices serve as a choke point for students’ success.
• Textbooks too costly; use technology instead.

Post Schooling

• 'Enough is enough' - UFS vice-chancellor after crime claims the lives of 2 students.
• International students can get vaccinated.
• Space Utilization: Optimization Strategies for the Campus of the Future.
• Walter Sisulu University to inaugurate its first female vice-chancellor.
• UCT’s Phakeng to supercharge African scholarship at Bristol University.
• KZN universities weigh in on mandatory vaccination, students not forced but encouraged to vaccinate.
• New director-general at the Department of Higher Education after former head axed.
• UCT cleansing ceremonies a powerful transformation narrative.

Publishing

• Fake Peer Review?

Research Opportunity

• UCT launches portal to highlight SDG-relevant research.

Skills and Employment 

• South Africa’s employment tax incentive is not a success story.
• Young and jobless? Apply for one of 287 000 education assistant posts.
• You're most likely to be employed with a UCT degree - here's where other SA universities rank.

Teaching and Learning

• A GRR Teaching Trick: Begin with the ‘You Do’.
• 'Teaching Is a Civic Duty'.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report.
• Victoria Marsick on 'Informal' and 'incidental' learning. Technology (EPSS, LXPs, LRSs, AI, Data) now implementing her ideas.
• Equity is only possible with quality information.
• Whatsapp hosts first career and education expo.
• Remote Learning and the Politics of Refusal.

Upcoming Conferences and Events 

• The myth, and the ideology, of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Virtual discussion 5 October, 2021.