Education: South Africa

• It’s back to school for some – and a whole new way of doing things.
• Soweto children adjust to ‘new normal’ at schools.
• The big test is still to come for SA schools.
• Electricity protests in Western Cape mar back-to-school efforts.
• Schools without water stay shut as others open, while taxi industry defends price hike.

Post-schooling

• Ranking 13 of the best universities in South Africa.
• SPU to welcome first batch of students in two weeks.
• CHE review of Unisa PhDs underway.
• CWUR ranks UJ in the top 3.6% of universities worldwide.
• NWU again ranked among the cream of the crop.
• One-stop shop for funding opportunities in Africa.
• UCT ranked among top 1.4% globally.
• Noam Chomsky Explains the Best Way for Ordinary People to Make Change in the World, Even When It Seems Daunting.
• Ensuring students' safety key to reopening universities: Nzimande.
• Students, staff must register on HealthCheck before returning to campus - Nzimande.
• Universities can decide which students return to campus, even if they are not in their final year.
• Health MEC does site inspection at TVET College.
• TUT ready for its first groups of students - Blade Nzimande.
• A lot has gone into supporting students during this time - Buti Manamela.

Skills and Employment 

• Textbook co-edited by UP academic reveals slow pace of transformation in South African workplace.
• The Future of Apprenticeships.
• Report: Which Employability Skills Are Students Missing?
• Online Learning Is Not the Future.

Teaching and Learning

• The Arts in the K-2 classroom: Belonging, Being and Becoming.
• Awareness, intellectual humility are key to behavioural studies.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Unisa sorry over online exam glitches.
• Internet access: a universal right.
• Ethics in AI and Education.
• Govt working to procure laptops for NSFAS students - Nzimande.
• Residence Life’s student peer-to-peer study pilot launched.