Education: South Africa

• 'Training to be provided' as teachers return to school on 25 May.
• Schools to reopen on June 1 — Motshekga.
• It’s final: Schools will reopen on 1 June for grades 7 and 12.
• Department's plans for staggered schooling gets the thumbs up.
• Class of 2020 Will Be Tested On Whole Curriculum, Says Umalusi.
• Schools to reopen in June, Eastern Cape rushes to strengthen health facilities and UN backs SA’s response.
• Covid-19 highlights importance of adequate school infrastructure and sanitation.

Language and Literacy

• Woop App Now in Isixhosa, First African Translation.

Open  education and Open resources

• OER for Workforce Development.
• Open and Free Access to Education for All.
• A Hidden Dream: Open Educational Resources.
• Who Benefits from the Public Good? How OER Is Contributing to the Private Appropriation of the Educational Commons.
• Empowering University Educators for Contemporary Open and Networked Teaching.
• MOOCs and OER: Developments and Contributions for Open Education and Open Science.

Post Schooling

• SAUS wants university fees to be reduced amid COVID-19 lockdown.
• UCT plans to open residences to students.
• Phased return to campus planned.
• UCT reveals first group of students who will be allowed back, but no dates confirmed yet.

Teaching and Learning

• COVID-19: a ‘teachable’ moment.
• Life skills, technology, teacher evaluation and the World Bank.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• UFH Online Teaching and Learning During Lockdown: Milestones and Plans.
• Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History.
• Poorer institutions' limited access to tech platforms worries lecturers.
• Telecommunications boost for students at Tshwane universities.
• UKZN rolls out free data bundles and laptops to students for online teaching during Covid-19.
• University of Pretoria prof urges govt to improve Internet density.