Education: South Africa 

• SA children are given too much screen time.
• Highlands North gets a new classroom after old boy’s open letter to the Class of ’81.
• Angry parents protest and shut down school in Bishop Lavis over teacher’s sick leave.

 Language and Literacy

• More than 7 000 children to take part in Play Africa’s ’I am a Scientist’ programme.
• There is no ban on Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University, says Prof Wim de Villiers.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Sharing and collaborating our way out of the storm.
• University of British Columbia: Recognizing Open in Promotion and Tenure.
• The Capability Approach: Part 1: Introduction and “Equality of what?”
• The Capability Approach: Part 2 – Key principles (Including: rock the boat/ don’t rock the boat? Some thoughts on agency and wellbeing).
• Open Educational Resources (OER)  and Promotion & Tenure Guidelines at ISU.
• Opportunities for review, promotion, and tenure reform

Post Schooling

• Exhilaration as USAf's fundraising for the higher education sector surpasses half of the R1billion target.
• Minister seeks legal advice on Unisa enrolments.
• NSFAS explains why there has been funding backlogs.
• UCT carries out two investigations into devastating fire.
• UWC students bemoan late pay of allowances as 'first-year students are going hungry'.
• Reckitt and Wits partner to fund disadvantaged black students 

Publishing

• Peer Review: Implementing a "publish, then review" model of publishing

Skills and Employment

• Why durable skills are the next big thing.
• Learning from the places where informal and formal change activity meet — Part One.
• Green skills development to help alleviate continents key challenges.
• What makes a high-quality professional development program?

Teaching and Learning

• ‘I Used to Like School’: An 11-Year-Old’s Struggle With Pandemic Learning.
• Q&A: Using Student Data to Improve Equity and Learning Outcomes.
• Here’s why students don’t revise what they write – and why they should.
• How to Fight Burnout.
• Students need a mindful role model: Practicing mindfulness in the classroom to build student mental health.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• Why has machine learning become such a toxic field, know-it-all field?
• The role of e-learning in the future of education.
• How assessment techniques make online learning effective and engaging

Upcoming Conferences 

• DETA Conference 2021, 3 - 5 August 2021. Theme:  Reimagining African Teacher Education through Distance for a Post-Pandemic Future.