Education: South Africa 

• WCED rejects claims that its application system is prejudiced against learners of colour.
• Limpopo Department of Education opens online application process for 2023 academic year.
• Drommedaris Primary School to bring in mobile classes after devastating fire.
• Close to 3000 pairs of Bata Toughees for learners affected by KZN floods.

Language and Literacy

• Homegrown Stories initiative ignites a love for reading in the next generation.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• What role will MOOC platforms play in UK universities online futures?

Research Opportunity

• First continental research integrity network launched.

Post Schooling

• Higher Education to host WorldSkills national competition.
• School of education launches Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching.
• Call for child safety, self-defence to be in school curriculum as child murders rise.
• Acknowledging systemic racism is the first step for transformation of institutions of higher learning.
• How to help researchers make the connections that matter.
• Bursaries build health sector skills, but need monitoring.
• HE should ‘urgently’ train experts in climate change.
• Perspectives on advancing emerging research universities.

Publishers and Publishing

• Renowned journal rejects papers that exclude African researchers.

Skills and Employment 

• Unemployment rate drops to 34.5% in first quarter of 2022.
• Higher Education to host WorldSkills national competition. 
• Post-study work opportunities drive student mobility.

Teaching and Learning

• American higher education enrollment declined again, continuing a decade-long trend.
• 3 Ways Administrators Can Include Teachers in Decision-Making.
• A Culture of Thinking for Teachers.
• Summary Brief - Distance Education & the Digital Divide: Ensuring learning continuity for girls during school closures
  Format Analysis.
• From rapid emergency response to scaling and sustaining innovation: Adult foundational education in the time of COVID-19.
• How many of your teachers want to quit? Depends what state you’re in.
• 7 ways that assessment -literate teachers create quality assessments.
• Five ways to reduce PowerPoint overload.
• How to ensure that blended teaching caters for all students.

Technology Enhance learning 

• Basque Wikimedians create Ikusgela, a platform for free education videos.
• Plagiarism Checker Alternatives to Turnitin (for K-12).
• The problematic metaphor of the environment in online learning (update: found a publisher!)
• Inaugural Day of AI brings new digital literacy to classrooms worldwide.
• Hybrid-enabling Spaces at the Taylor Institute.
• AI dubbing service could dramatically cut content localisation costs and turnaround.
• New paper: Focusing on the ecological aspects of online and distance learning.
• 25 Books Every Technologist Should Read.
• Newsletters vs. Blogs and Social Media - Thoughts for Tech Coaches.