education

City of Joburg relaunches Library Services eLearning website

The City of Johannesburg’s Libraries and Information Services has re-introduced an eLearning website that offers free access to learning content. The website is available…

South African learners place in top 5 at international robotics contest

Two teams of Reddford House learners from South Africa were among the top five winners of the recent Inspired Builds 2021 robotics competition. The…

iSchoolAfrica iPad programme reaches 100 000 learners

South Africa education initiative iSchoolAfrica has enabled more than 100 000 learners with iPads and other digital learning technology. The initiative made the announcement…

21 digital transformation courses your employees should take in 2020

No business hoping to thrive in the future can avoid digital transformation. To do so is to risk being left behind by an ever-growing…

Google’s Grasshopper coding tool hits the desktop for free

Google just made it a lot easier for anyone to learn how to code online. On Tuesday, the company launched its free coding tool…

EDSA will give you your money back if you don’t find work after graduation

South African data science school Explore Data Science Academy (EDSA) has launched several new courses and a money-back guarantee for prospective 2020 students. Along…

EFF lays into DA’s John Steenhuisen for lacking post-matric qualification

Twitter’s all for education this morning after it was revealed that DA chief whip John Steenhuisen doesn’t have a post-matric qualification. The news broke…

Western Cape gov: hacked, stolen NSC biology exams is ‘fake news’

The Western Cape provincial government on Monday quelled rumours that a NSC paper was stolen through a hack of the province’s education department website….

Learn more about South Africa with these Instagram accounts

Instagram isn’t just about posting pictures of your lunch, or selfies with you and the pug. Like all social networks, it can actually be…

Watch: #UCTShutdown protestors trigger fire extinguishers, disrupt exams

It has been a tumultuous week for the University of Cape Town (UCT). Although a wave of #FeesMustFall protests have swept through South Africa’s…

#Matric2017: SA wishes students well on Twitter

Can you remember the nerves you felt when walking into that exam venue to write your final paper? Twitter does, and has subsequently bestowed…

5 huge benefits of augmented reality in the classroom

Students at Hoërskool Dinamika, a school in the east of Johannesburg, are gathered around a table. Sets of cards are arranged in rows before…

#AnotherKZNSchool: video of KZN teacher brutally beating students goes viral

Another school violence video is tonight trending across South Africa’s social media timelines, but this time its origin isn’t Gauteng. Instead a KwaZulu-Natal school…

NSFAS sent a student R14m, she loses it by going viral

Update: The university told EWN yesterday that she had the money for five months, while the student and chief executive of IntelliMali told The Star she acquired the funds in…

Tshwane school gets ‘skinny pants’ to trend on Twitter after protest

There have been an awful many incidents regarding dress codes and codes of conduct at Gauteng schools this year, but the latest doesn’t concern…

Violent viral videos spark social media storm around Kempton Park school

Another school in South Africa has this week gone viral on social media for all the wrong reasons. Norkem Park High School, located in…

8 YouTube channels that’ll make you a much smarter human

Not every YouTube channel will rot your mind away with videos of wipe-outs and dancing cats. There is actually a part of YouTube that…

Explaining Feenix: the Standard Bank-backed solution to #FeesMustFall

There’s been a lot said about #FeesMustFall — at least in terms of the hashtag and the social movement it propelled. But in its…

Xbox Ones and tiny tablets: this is South Africa’s ‘classroom of the future’

When I was at school, the most advanced technology we had were space cases, chair bags and desks that didn’t creak, but Microsoft and…

Another Stellenbosch bullying video makes rounds on Facebook

Just when you thought the bullying videos were over for the year, another incident stemming from Stellenbosch has social media up in arms again….

Programme fosters pool of tech talent to address SA unemployment

Nomusa Sithole has a diploma, but struggled to secure a job in the field she studied for. She ended up working at a restaurant…

South Africa seriously needs to fix its education system to develop a knowledge economy

South Africa’s education system is in a bad state. That was the grim message conveyed by Prof Roy du Pré (pictured above), chairperson of…

Hypocrite or hero? Elon Musk, Russel, Bengio call for six month AI pause

Host virtual meetings as anyone with Xpression camera app

The race to seamless A.I. picks up speed, Adobe launches Firefly

Crypto exchanges vs. banks: Why it matters

Akili Labs, BGI Genomics bring clinical sequencing to Africa

Finverity raises $5m to bridge global trade finance gap

Sony’s ZV-E1 camera: light weight takes on heavy duty content creation

Nokia reminds us of the iconic Nokia 3310, here’s what you missed

Incoming from Apple, AirPods Pro with USB-C

Review: Hyundai Staria R2.2 multicab

GR Corolla to continue Toyota’s hot hatch legacy in SA

Review: Tiguan Allspace 1.4 TSI 110 kW R-Line