Entries by The Education community of South Africa

Attending a top South African university can set graduates up for the future

<p><img data-src="https://biz-file.com/c/2206/658009.jpg" alt="Attending a top South African university can set graduates up for the future" width="208" height="117" align="left" / loading="lazy" class="lazyload">Graduates who received their degrees at the University of Pretoria's (UP) recent autumn graduation ceremonies are among the 12% of students in South Africa who have gained access to higher education over the past decade.<br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//Article/196/499/228510.html">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//SendToFriend.aspx?l=196&c=499&ct=1&ci=228510">Send to a friend</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

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‘Edumocracy’: Education by the people, for the people, to the people!

<p><img data-src="https://biz-file.com/c/2206/658000.jpg" alt="'Edumocracy': Education by the people, for the people, to the people!" width="208" height="117" align="left" / loading="lazy" class="lazyload">In his book, <i>Beyond the Limits to Growth</i> (2014), author Hiroshi Komiyama writes about the pursuit of a 'platinum society' - a society that aims to improve the lives of people through innovation, through coordination with industry, government, and academia. It was such a society that beckoned at the new dawn of democracy in 1994 when the country transitioned into a new political dispensation with a new Constitution and Bill of Rights, new anthem and a new international identity.<br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//Article/196/499/228508.html">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//SendToFriend.aspx?l=196&c=499&ct=1&ci=228508">Send to a friend</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

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Autodesk offers unemployed engineering grads the first step toward their career

<p><img data-src="https://biz-file.com/c/2206/657971-208x117.jpg?1" alt="Murat Tüzüm, Autodesk's head of manufacturing industry EMEA emerging" width="208" height="117" align="left" / loading="lazy" class="lazyload"><br><span >Murat Tüzüm, Autodesk's head of manufacturing industry EMEA emerging&lt;/span>Autodesk is providing engineering graduates with a leg up into the working world of manufacturing through the launch of its First Step in Your Career initiative. Initially launched in Turkey in 2021, this skills training programme is now available in South Africa.<br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//Article/196/500/228496.html">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//SendToFriend.aspx?l=196&c=500&ct=1&ci=228496">Send to a friend</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

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Level up your corporate e-learning with gamification

<p><img data-src="https://biz-file.com/c/2206/657796-208x117.jpg?3" alt="Image source: RODNAE Productions from" width="208" height="117" align="left" / loading="lazy" class="lazyload"><br><span >Image source: RODNAE Productions from [[https://www.pexels.com Pexels]]&lt;/span>We all know how social media gamifies communication by offering immediate, vivid, and quantified evaluations of our conversational success. These game-like features are responsible for much of social media's psychological wallop. Social media is addictive, in part, because it feels so good to watch those likes go up, and in the background we know that the platforms' scoring mechanisms bring with them another very game-like aspect: a clear and unambiguous ranking.<br> <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//Article/196/500/228450.html">Read more...</a> | <a href="https://www.bizcommunity.com//SendToFriend.aspx?l=196&c=500&ct=1&ci=228450">Send to a friend</a></p><div style="clear:left"></div>

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