Early Childhood Development

• Regressive and deeply flawed, the Children’s Amendment Bill is rushed to the new Parliament.
• Early education faces a steep learning curve.

 Education: South Africa

• Gauteng Education says 459 608 online applications received for 2020.

Higher Education

• Higher yearning: researchers left strapped for cash.
• The Pursuit of Patterns in Educational Data Mining as a Threat to Student Privacy.
• Learning Analytics beyond the LMS: Enabling Connected Learning via Open Source Analytics in “the wild”.
• Fewer Australians will have uni or TAFE skills if governments don’t reform tertiary education

Language and Literacy

• Human language is a chimp off the old building blocks.

Science and Technology

• Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?