Education: South Africa

• Children Must Know Fundamentals: If Basic Skills are not Acquired and Learners are Pushed Through School, It Can Have Dire Consequences for their Future Development, Write Tholisa Matheza and Dianne Hendricks. City Press Voices Page 3.
• South Africa hosts ADEA High-Level Annual Policy Dialogue Forum on Secondary Education in Africa, 29 to 30 Jul.
• Over 3K schools to close due to dwindling numbers

Language and Literacy

• How a robot called Pink helped school children bring an Aboriginal language back to life.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Global Massive Open Online Courses Market Analysis To 2027 Leading Players Alison, Coursera, edX, FutureLearn, iversity Learning Solutions, LinkedIn, NovoEd, Pluralsight, Udacity, Udemy.

Post- Secondary  Education

• Universities urge AU to get behind Africa strategy.
• Towards a philanthropic model for African universities.
• Unskilled graduates struggle to find decent jobs – Report.
• Public Protector probes Wits marking method.

Publishing

• Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’.