After the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, Education International has expressed solidarity with the Lebanese capital’s inhabitants, including educators and students.

The new blended learning approachDue to the changing working world and the introduction of precautions against the coronavirus, a shift has occurred in most business models that now have to adapt to survive in this new world of social distancing. For the education sector in an African context, this is a very hard shift to adjust to. The shift to online has been most difficult for children and disadvantaged schools, that not only do not have the resources to produce or stream online, as private schools do, but also provide an environment to thrive on interaction while learning. Adults luckily have better attention spans and can more easily adapt to online under the circumstances.
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SU set to offer DeepMind postgraduate scholarships to underrepresented groupsStellenbosch University (SU) is the first African university to be awarded scholarships by DeepMind, a London-based organisation focused on artificial intelligence research and its application in the real world. Scholarships will be awarded for postgraduate studies in the fields of applied mathematics, statistics, electrical and electronic engineering and computer science.
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