Distance Education

• What Is Distance Learning For?

Education: South Africa

• Schools reopen: Learners with disabilities left behind again.
• Teacher unions know their power — and how to use it.
• Catch-2020: Schools at risk, open or closed.
• Children with disabilities must be part of nation building.
• Special education has tough transitions, great opportunities ahead.
• Children’s masks donated to Alfonso Arries Primary School.
• KZN education department postpones return to school for additional grades.
• Being in Matric Is Not Easy - Doing It in the Middle of a Pandemic Is Not for the Fainthearted.
• Substitute Teachers Needed in Public Schools, Applications Open.

Language and Literacy

• Literacy needs of diverse students unpacked.

Post Schooling

• Faculty put Affordable Learning Grants into action.
• Whether located in Europe or Africa, universities can collaborate to solve global problems.
• European and South African universities draw solid lessons from their COVID-19 experience.
• We must help students empower themselves, NMU student dean says.
• R3-million relief fund helps 294 students across South Africa with data and laptops.
• The Class of 2020 got a raw deal - can universities and employers help them?
• International research collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa?

Skills and Employment 

• With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests.
• Parents, teachers – ‘forgotten stakeholders’ in growing entrepreneurs.

Teaching and Learning

• The evolution of the global education industry during the pandemic.
• What if Kindness Is the New Normal? A Call to Re-Imagine the Purpose of Education in the Post-COVID World.
• Building a better world through education: 6 big ideas.
• Investing in Education and Accelerating Action On the SDGs.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Telkom’s e-learning portal offers zero-rated maths, science lessons.
• KZN Gives Rural School ICT Tools in Honour of Mandela.