Wits University shares platform with STEM Lockdown Digital School to offer career advisory servicesAfrica Teen Geeks in partnership with the Sasol Foundation, and supported by the Department of Basic Education, presented a free STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Lockdown Digital School, which commenced on the fourth day of the national lockdown. These virtual classes, which cater for learners in grade R to12, have been in operation for five weeks.
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Limpopo court dismisses bid to halt schools re-openingThe Department of Basic Education has welcomed a judgment by the Limpopo High Court dismissing an application seeking to halt the department's proposed re-opening of schools on 1 June.
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Limpopo court dismisses bid to halt schools re-openingThe Department of Basic Education has welcomed a judgment by the Limpopo High Court dismissing an application seeking to halt the department's proposed re-opening of schools on 1 June.
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Educational institutions must embrace the new digital realityThe ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound and indelible effect on all aspects of society, sweeping in disruptive changes to the way we live, work and interact with each other. Adopting a suitable and robust online learning strategy is key to maintaining academic continuity for institutions of higher learning.
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Educational institutions must embrace the new digital realityThe ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is having a profound and indelible effect on all aspects of society, sweeping in disruptive changes to the way we live, work and interact with each other. Adopting a suitable and robust online learning strategy is key to maintaining academic continuity for institutions of higher learning.
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Honoris, Le Wagon partnership offers free coding courseHonoris United Universities, the pan-African network of private higher education institutions, has joined forces with the internationally acclaimed coding bootcamp, Le Wagon, to provide a free online web development course as the network integrates coding as a skill into its employability ecosystem.
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Keeping up with the current changesThe imminence of technologies underlying the future has been something many businesses and educational institutions have avoided until now. This is as a result of believing that the traditional method of running operations works best, ignoring the power of its blueprint in a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) context. This ideology was brought to its knees in February and March 2020, as many countries went into a social and business lockdown. Many South African organisations went into crisis mode and emergency measures were put in place to keep citizens safe from Covid-19.
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NWU launches campaign to support students amid Covid-19As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt and affect our lives in the most unprecedented and unpredictable ways, the North-West University has launched the NWU Covid-19 Response Fund.
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NWU launches campaign to support students amid Covid-19As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt and affect our lives in the most unprecedented and unpredictable ways, the North-West University has launched the NWU Covid-19 Response Fund.
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BREAKING: Gray philanthropy ecosystem makes R180m availableThe Gray philanthropy ecosystem in South Africa has made available R180 million of funding to assist with the economic, educational and medical shortages created by the coronavirus crisis.
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