Copyright

• Blind SA goes to ConCourt in effort to compel the President to sign Copyright Amendment Bill.

Education: South Africa

• UP leads project with prominent English institutions to promote learning development for children in rural SA.
• It’ll take teachers with a can-do attitude to pick up the school year.
• How schools could work during Covid.
• We should be worried about children going back to school.
• Back to school on June 8.
• Safety at schools: ‘Keep your distance and your pen’.
• ‘Tenderpreneurs’ block the delivery of protective equipment to schools.
• Protective equipment for schools in KwaZulu-Natal goes ‘missing’.
• High-risk teachers vulnerable to Covid-19 now know how they will be treated.
• Schools: Confusion rather than clarity and confidence reign.
• Rural Eastern Cape School Beats the Odds to Get Ready for COVID-19 Despite Limited Resources.
• Phase in schools not grades.
• A lesson in a lack of leadership - what Motshekga taught pupils this weekend.
• GOUGED: KZN education department pays top prices to get schools sanitised and equipped by Monday.
• Reopening schools is an ill-considered move – ask the teachers, not the economists.
• Each one teach one: It is up to us all to ensure proper schooling in the Covid-19 era.
• There is no justification for a prolonged closure of schools. 

Language and Literacy

• Graduate calls for African music and dance programmes in high schools.
• African translation studies take centre stage in new UFS journal.
• Language and Writing Advancement Programme now available online.
• Rhodes University student volunteers translate books for Book Dash.

Post-schooling

• Perverse incentives for universities are wasting the skills and work of postdoctoral fellows.
• Students shouldn't pay tuition fees next year – the government should.
• Nzimande to check university state of readiness.
• No student will enter campus without being screened, says higher education deputy minister.
• NSFAS ‘set to write-off’ R1.96 billion in historic student debt.
• In repurposing education, leave no student – or university – behind.
• Universities ready to begin phased reopening as lockdown level 3 kicks in.

Teaching and Learning

• Tips to manage the heavy load of lockdown learning.
• Academics’ health suffers under Covid-19.
• Education is a political and ethical matter.
• Crisis and Opportunity for Faculty Development.
• How COVID-19 is impacting education outcomes in the Commonwealth.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• UCT team offers free online maths lessons.
• 12 Key Ideas: An Introduction to Teaching Online.
• Let’s lose the deficit language about online education.
• University teaching and learning go online.
• Some students back at Tshwane varsities, but it's online for most.