Education: South Africa

• ‘It’s like asking schools to go on while fighter planes drop bombs all around’.
• Fear of infection is keeping children from the classroom, principals tell Angie Motshekga.
• Teachers plead for 'new timetable' as Covid-19 infections spike.
• Mandela Day: Maimane launches e-learning centre in Cape Town.
• Judgment on reopening of private preschools hardly a victory.
• Schools under pressure as SA's Covid-19 pandemic gains momentum.
• Cabinet to decide on possible reclosure of schools.
• School feeding court case: The justice of eating and the obscenity of hunger.
• Education Committee Chairperson Saddened By COVID-19 Deaths in the Sector.
• Equal Education and Judge Potterill save children’s lives.
• Q&A with Cosas: Some ANC leaders want schools open 'for their own business arrangements'.
• Natu calls on DBE to issue laptops to all matriculants.

Language and Literacy

• UWC to launch Centre for African Language Teaching thanks to R10m grant.

Open Education and Open Education Resources 

• A tribute to Tessa Welch – OER pioneer, open and distance educator, literacy enabler and African storybook coordinator.

Post Schooling

• Transformation as a contradiction at UCT.
• Landscape of post-pandemic transnational higher education.
• One thousand scholarships for disadvantaged students.
• False Bay TVET College celebrates the new college principal.
• Not a single hour of teaching has been lost at Cooper College.
• Varsities try to tackle cash crunch.
• Students shutdown Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University.
• Call for students to enter Huawei’s ICT training programme.

Science and Technology

• Minister Blade Nzimande: European Union Research and Innovation Ministers meeting session on Innovation and Technology.

Teaching and Learning

• As schools go to distance learning, key strategies to prevent learning loss.
• Give teachers the respect they deserve and make it a desirable profession.
• A new social contract for Africa must put the rights and welfare of children at the forefront.
• Video: The importance of competency-based learning for students during changing times.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• 4IR can help solve myriad problems, not least of which is our water woes.
• How to build an inclusive online learning environment.