Distance Education

• The case of Unisa: Belinda Bozzoli is embarrassingly blinded to some basic facts.
• Employers’ Perception and Expectations of Professional Competency of Distance Learning Graduates: A Tracer Study of Nursing Graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN).

Education: South Africa

• Teen to represent SA in spelling bee in Kenya.
• Address by the Minister of Basic Education, Mrs Angie Motshekga, MP, at the launch of the NECT’s Five-Year Aide Memoire held at 61 Katherine Street, Sandton, 19 November 2018 .
• That’s sick! Nurse says certificate costs an arm and a leg.

Employment

• Youth Unemployment: No Experience Needed for State Entry-Level Jobs by Linda Ensor. Business Day Page 2.

Open Education and Open Educational Resources

• Reflecting on the Impact of the Open Education Movement.
• A Social Justice Framework for Understanding Open Educational Resources and Practices in the Global South.

Teaching and Learning

• Violence against teachers is escalating, and not just in SA.
• Young African scientists drowning in a cauldron of obstacles.
• Eliciting In-service Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge for 21st-Century Skills in Tanzania.
• Hungry to Learn: Five Students Describe Their Struggles with Food and Housing Insecurity and What Colleges Can Do to Help.

Technology Enhanced Learning

• In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education.