Education: South Africa

• Nehawu Welcomes Government Intention to Increase Spending in Both Health and Education.
• Basic Education Slow in Meeting School Targets by Tamar Kahn. Business Day Page 3.
• 590 000 poor pupils could go hungry as department stalls Mpumalanga school nutrition tenders.
• Up to 100 pupils crammed into single classroom in Eastern Cape.
• Minister Motshekga briefs media on developments in the basic education sector.
• Request for Proposals from Public Universities: Research Programme on Technical and Vocational Education and Training.
• Schools get a giant F for not reinforcing human values by Jonathan Jansen.

Higher Education

• Closure of Campus Takes Toll on Students as Exams Loom: TUT, Community Meet by Yoliswa Sobuwa. Sowetan Page 6.
• Transformation - Profession Making Strides: UJ Candidtes' Results Affirm It as a Leading Institution in Accounting Education in SA, Writes Penny Haw. Business Day Page 7.
• Language, Academic Success Clearly Linked. Business Day Page 7.
• Holistic Solutions for Lifelong Learning. Business Day Page 7.
• Fertile Ground: It's Not What You Learn on Your MBA But How You Apply It by David Furlonger. Financial Mail Page 20.
• UCT the only African university to make the world's top 200.
• Parents livid about ‘wasted’ law studies – and the law is to blame.
• The mutating metric machinery of higher education.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Designing for Open Learning: An Interview with Gráinne Conole.
• The MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab Launch the Knowledge Futures Group.
• The “problem” of predatory publishing remains a relatively small one and should not be allowed to defame open access.

Science and Technology

• How humans fit into Google’s machine future.
• Technology dominates our lives – that’s why we should teach human rights law to software engineers.
• Former Director of SKA-SA wins NRF Lifetime Award.

Teaching and Learning

• How Playing On Swings Can Help Children Understand Physics.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• One Thing Missing in Most E-learning Courses