Distance Education

• I have an idea about distance education.

Education: South Africa

• Teacher Connect ensures safer schools.
• Private education: alive and kicking - for now.
• No funds for Covid-19 substitute teachers as thousands of educators stay away.
• Why are some learners so aggressive?

Language and Literacy

• Pandemic highlights importance of literacy skills.
• Poetry book on the pandemic by Mandela Uni Prof.
• It’s time to reimagine adult literacy in a post-Covid-19 world.
• While COVID crisis increases inequalities, UNESCO recalls that reading is basis of development.

Post Schooling

• Press Release -Strengthening the Capacity of Africa’s Science Granting Councils in Research Management.
• Who Leads Colleges After COVID-19?
• Graduation ceremony so virtual Rhodes students missed it. 
• NSFAS receives over 160 000 student applications.
• MUT student advisor assist students to cope with academic pressure.
• Where do Africans study abroad?
• Growth in Quality Nelson Mandela University Student Applications.
• Level 2: Vigilance Call with Return to Campus Plans.

Research Opportunity 

• More than R30 million in research grants facilitated.

Science and Technology

• Science and Innovation calls for increased efforts to improve innovation in the country.

Teaching and Learning

• Policy Brief: Education during COVID-19 and beyond.
• Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Education in Africa.
• Revitalizing Classes Through Oral Exams.
• Making Real Change a Classroom at a Time.
• Students shutdown college over NSFAS payments.
• Innovative lecturing approach during lockdown.
• Images of Learning through Music: The Sounds of Cognition.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Back-To-School Around The Globe: Remote Learning Reinvented.
• Hands-on Classes at a Distance and the Emerging Virtual Future.
• New tender for student laptops; process under scrutiny.
• Mind the Ethics Gap.
• Virtual Connection: The Rise of Experiential Learning Companies.
• “Synch Video is Bad,” perhaps a new research project?
• Covid-19 exposes South Africa’s digital literacy divide.