Education: South Africa 

• its back to school for pupils.
• Parliament’s education committee to probe school bullying.

 Language and Literacy

• Language solutions to navigate legal contexts 
• Grit matters when a child is learning to read, even in poor South African schools.
• Why we remember more by reading – especially print – than from audio or video.

Post Schooling

• Tech Apprenticeships Shift the Costs of Higher Ed From Students to Employers.
• Systemic Change Means Rethinking College and Career Prep. We’ve Done It Before.
• Unisa head Professor Mandla Makhanya bows out after 33 years.
• State must dig deeper to fund SA's medical students in Cuba.
• 400 Sol Plaatje University students graduate.
• Rhodes signs up for Green Chemistry.
• Wits can lead way for global South to meet challenges of 21st century - Prof Zeblon Vilakazi.
• NSFAS Funds Latest: 440 000 ‘irregular’ records, ghost students.
• UCT Jagger library salvage project ongoing.
• Students step up to create hope with Walk4Access initiative.
• A New Generation Of Heroes: UWC Celebrates Student Success In Autumn Graduation 2021.
• Relief as displaced students return to residences.
• Unisa's international students profiled.
• How the pandemic is hurting university students’ mental health.
• Building a bridge between research and educational practice.
• All Hands on Deck.

Teaching and Learning

• Why They Left,
• The Real Solution to Learning Loss: Valuing Teachers and the Teaching Profession.
• How Did State-Funded Preschools Respond to the Pandemic? Special Report Offers a Glimpse.
• Students Are Slipping Through the Cracks of Special Education. Schools Must Do Better.
• ‘Big five’ education challenges: Ensuring all children get the best start in life.
• Evidence-based practice – what is it and why is it important?
• Teachers’ understanding of bullying behaviour in the early years.
• Education and inequality in 2021: how to change the system.
• World's Richest Countries Agree to Send 40M More Girls to School Within Next 5 Years.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• A Popular Study Found That Taking Notes By Hand Is Better Than By Laptop. But Is It?
• 20 000 young South Africans to get digital skills boost.
• Cutting Edge Multimedia Centre Opens At Vhembe TVET College.
• Why we can't drop the ball on ed tech now.
• From the front lines to the enterprise: The ethical considerations of AI.
• The Rise of Asynchronous Collaboration and What It Means for Development Teams.
• Online learning a challenge for special-needs children,
• Trends in Education Technology to Watch Out for in 2021.
• Preparing Educators to Teach in a Digital Age.
• The future of Edtech: How 2021 will bring faster tech adoption in the education sector.
• MTN Foundation hands over multimedia centre in Limpopo.

Upcoming Conferences 

• DETA Conference 2021, 3 - 5 August 2021. Theme:  Reimagining African Teacher Education through Distance for a Post-Pandemic Future.
• Call for Papers:  Nadeosa Virtual Conference 2021. University of the Free State. 11- 13 May 2021. Theme: Preparing for the Future: Shaping Open, Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) in Post School Education and Training (PSET)