Education: South Africa

• Teachers Quit in Droves for Gulf Posts: Lured to Abu Dhabi by Good Money There and Tough Times Here by Suthentira Govender. Sunday Times Page 10.
• Long Walk to Peace on Campus (CPUT) by Prega Govender. SundayTimes Page 10.
• Green light for teachers to learn how to teach reading.

Higher Education

• Inside the NSFAS Mess: Overpayment of R503m Made to Students Above Amounts Agreed To by Mayibongwe Maqhina. The Star Page 1.
• The ongoing struggle for affordable accommodation renders free education meaningless.
• Research universities alliance launches two new centres.
• Enriching value of HE connections across the diaspora  by Claudia Fritelli.
• The dangers of limiting research to elite universities.
• Curriculum transformation – ‘A long and tortuous battle’
• Free higher education is not sustainable, says VC.

Language and Literacy

• Pan South African Language Board honours Parliament for promoting multilingualism.
• Let's Promote Kiswahili As the Language of African Diplomacy

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Reassigned Time as Faculty Incentive to Adopt OER

Teaching and Learning

• Community schools in Egypt: lessons on what works, and what doesn’t.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Rwandans urged to embrace e-learning.
• Paper Vs Screen Reading - Special Issue of First Monday.
• eLearning – The challenges of implementation.