Education: South Africa

• Covid-19 cases rise in Eastern Cape school.
• White elephant schools reveal lack of progress.
• 500 pupils quarantined after Covid-19 outbreak at Eastern Cape school.
• Folly of school assessment in a pandemic.
• Teachers With Comorbidities Told to Return to School.
• Back to School for All Teachers Working From Home.
• Nsfas, Neawu to continue wage negotiations.

Language and Literacy

• Honorary doctorate from Rhodes for Xhosa music legend.
• University of Johannesburg takes International Student Festival online for 2020.
• DUT's adult and community education unit hosts webinar pertaining to the state of adult education and literacy in South Africa.
• Student entrepreneur's digital library helps children to read.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• MassBay Doubles Free Open Educational Resource Classes.

Post Schooling

• The Challenges and Opportunities facing Higher Education Institutions in the Digital Era.
• UNISA readies to host its first TEDx.
• UP and Ikiam University enter research, academic exchange partnership.
• Varsity students want accommodation fees adjusted as lessons continue online.
• UP and Murdoch University sign agreement to establish joint PhD programmes.
• VUT Students Welcomed back under the COVID- 19 level 2 Higher Education Protocols.
• What can be done to better support women pursuing their PhDs in Africa.
• Fort Hare students battle resource constraints in race to finish academic year.
• UKZN invites students back to campus under level 1.
• Reports of Higher Education’s Death Have Been Moderately Exaggerated.

Science and Technology

• Covid-19 exposed SA’s gaps in achieving universal internet access — Ndabeni-Abrahams.
• How Universities Need to Respond to the Effects of Climate Change.

Skills and Employment

• How graduates exploit technology to transition from university to the workplace.
• DPWI, AgriSeta partner to train and certify 400 artisans.

Teaching and Learning

• Ministerial adviser’s ‘interference’ delays laptops for students.
• Password education should be age-appropriate: here’s how.
• An Open Letter to a Parent Afraid of Anti-Racist Education.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Can universities rebuild students’ trust in data?
• Finding the Silver Lining in 2020 — 10 Developments in Online and Remote Education That Make Us Hopeful.
• Academic Week 2020: Transforming Teaching Through Technology.
• TLC2020: Who moved my classroom?