Education: South Africa

• Cuts to School Build Grants on the Cards by Tamar Kahn. Business Day Page 2.
• SA School Principals Return Home From China.
• Millions of children in SA set up for failure.
• A government committed to Early Childhood Development would not pass the Children’s Amendment Bill.
• Basic Education Department rejects continued misleading reports on Life Orientation curriculum, 29 October 2019 
• Speech by the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angie Motshekga, MP, During Stakeholders’ Engagement, Johannesburg-North Education District held in Diepsloot, 28 October 2019 .

Language and Literacy

• Education Ministry, NGO partner on literacy.
• South Africa’s Puku Foundation: Children’s Books To Save Languages.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Ethiopia Adopts a National Open Access Policy.
• Good Practices in Using Open Journal Systems.
• OER can Help Close the Global Skills Gap.

Post Schooling

• Creating 'New Ways of Doing Things': UP Launches Four Key Transdisciplinary Innovations in 2018-19, Writes Penny Haw. Business Day Page 4.
• As we adapt to this changing landscape, part of our role as institutions of higher learning has to include teaching our students about the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is not enough for us to adapt; we have to ensure that they can adapt too.
• VUT should aim to become an entrepreneurial university.