Education: South Africa

• Our children must go back to school. 
• Education spending is falling and the Covid-19 budget has slashed it further.
• Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences.
• Widening inequality gap in SA schooling a further casualty of Covid-19.
• MEC Debbie Schäfer On New Basic Education Directions Gazetted.
• Three steps we need to take to take education forward.
• School within its rights to bar isiphandla.
• There are useful lessons to learn from the generation of the 1986 emergency.
• Teachers trying to catch up, ‘ticking boxes’, overloading learners.
• ‘I will have to repeat grade 8’.
• How a South African court case reminded adults of the rights of children.
• Is public education so inferior that it was easy for state to close schools over Covid-19 fears?

Language and literacy

• Teaching up to class 5 in mother tongue, regional language: School principals have varied views.
• Last Cohort of Learners Will Go Back to Class On 31 August.

Post Schooling

• Rethinking the university experience: Can undergraduate international exchange programmes go virtual?
• Minister Nzimande commends University of Zululand Covid-19 measures.
• Three South African vice-chancellors paint a post-COVID picture for universities.
• South African higher education’s opportunity to embrace digital transformation.
• Learning in South Africa: the evolving education landscape.

Skills and Employment

• How to narrow the gap between what universities produce and what employers expect.
• How to develop an all-inclusive economy through education and skills development.

Teaching and Learning

• Pivoting to Inclusion: Leveraging Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis for Learners with Disabilities.
• Betsy DeVos Backtracks on Remote Learning Options She Had Championed.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Miss Rona’s teaching the 4IR lessons.
• The Real Reason Why The Pandemic E-Learning Experiments Didn’t Work.
• Covid-19: Universities say online learning has improved class attendance.
• Digital Learning Architectures of Participation.
• Research reports on Covid-19 and emergency remote learning/online learning.
• Teach Your Class Online - The Essentials.
• Tide Turns on Fall Reopenings.