Distance Education

• ‘I changed my life through the OU – now I’m running my own business’

Education: South Africa 

• Early childhood development sector rises above flood.
• Winter School Camp to Promote Careers in Built Environment Sector.
• School Site Abandoned As Contractor Accuses Eastern Cape Education Department of Failing to Pay.
•  Education Department's Proposed Watering Down of Infrastructure Law Is Bad News for Schools.
• Amendments to basic education law have some welcome elements, but there are serious flaws.

Post Schooling

• Microcredentials: A new category of education is rising.
• Colleges need a professional council.
• It will be PhDs galore as UCT resumes physical graduation.
• Unisa puts out call for Postgraduate Student Showcase.
• The Likely Effects Of The Commercialisation Of Higher Education Were Hiding In Plain Sight For Decades
• Developing knowledge and learning in higher education – high level or grass roots?
• An invisible minority: what is needed to support students with caring responsibilities.
• A shattered consensus: the end of college for everyone.

Research Opportunity

• Sustainability research needs applied and social sciences.
• Challenging the greedy Gollum Effect in academic research.
• Minister Blade Nzimande on WITS university young researchers taking leading roles at the ATLAS experiment collaboration of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

Teaching and Learning

• Future of our world is in our hands.
• Examinations in full swing after disruption.
• Facilitated learning for organisations and individuals.
• How has Covid-19 shaped the engagement of research with policy and practice in Low and Middle Income Countries?
• Developing knowledge and learning in higher education – high level or grass roots?
• No wonder no one wants to be a teacher: world-first study looks at 65,000 news articles about Australian teachers.

Technology Enhance learning

• Education 4.0 and its key role in sustainable developmen.
• SAS, NWU pen new five-year data science skills deal.
• Rhodes University’s recently launched radio telescope provides robust learning opportunities.
• ICT could contribute significantly to digital transformation, says VC.
• Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century.
• How to be a techno-optimist.
• Reviewing the ed tech angst.
• 5 reasons to choose online learning over traditional methods.
• Meta launches Sphere, an AI knowledge tool based on open web content, used initially to verify citations on Wikipedia.
• Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL): Preparedness and experiences of South African students.