Dr Catherine Duggan, formerly the vice dean for strategy and research at the African Leadership University (ALU) in Rwanda and member of faculty at Harvard Business School, has been appointed as the new director of the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB).
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It may seem unlikely to think it now, but I didn't actually start my career studying analytics. I pursued quantity surveying as my first choice of profession. How did you end up in AI then, you ask? Well, as it turned out, I graduated during a period of recession when not much new construction was underway, and it was hard to find a job.
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Five recipients of the Education International scholarship fund in honour of Mary Hatwood Futrell, founding President of EI (1993 - 2004), write about their opportunities and plans after receiving their advanced degrees in education.
Five recipients of the Education International scholarship fund in honour of Mary Hatwood Futrell, founding President of EI (1993 - 2004), write about their opportunities and plans after receiving their advanced degrees in education.
Teaching for All, an initiative focused on promoting inclusive education in South Africa through material and teacher development, hosted a digital conference on the topic of inclusive education in South Africa.
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Most young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in South Africa continue to be denied access to information and communications technology because of poor infrastructure and the digital divide.
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False Bay TVET College, Westlake Campus, Centre for Specialisation for Mechanical Fitting is one of the first recipients of a state-of-the-art video conferencing facility, alongside Tshwane South TVET College, Pretoria West Campus, Centre of Specialisation for Mechanical Fitting.
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False Bay TVET College, Westlake Campus, Centre for Specialisation for Mechanical Fitting is one of the first recipients of a state-of-the-art video conferencing facility, alongside Tshwane South TVET College, Pretoria West Campus, Centre of Specialisation for Mechanical Fitting.
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After the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, Education International has expressed solidarity with the Lebanese capital’s inhabitants, including educators and students.
Due 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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