Faces masks and coverings are now mandatory in South Africa, however, according to the new regulations, schools should not turn away learners for not wearing them.
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It's big-picture thinking for small business or, if you like, streetwise entrepreneurship for creative businesses. This September, Henley Business School Africa and Raizcorp will be offering the first-ever Saqa-accredited Higher Certificate in Management Practice for Entrepreneurs.
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Distance education - popularly known as correspondence education in the 1980s - was commonly understood as an individual learning from home using printed study materials. Perhaps a bland and uninspiring learning journey, however many a person pursued this form of education due to limited opportunity to higher education, lack of funds for post-school education and because they needed to work whilst advancing their education. Fast forward - 2020; the distance education model of learning has been transformed to promise a very rich and rewarding learning experience - the two are literally incomparable.
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The globe has witnessed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic that has affected how individuals conduct aspects of their personal and professional lives. The unprecedented situation has shifted how society performs daily tasks and encouraged a new approach as a coping mechanism.
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As we continue to witness the massive impact Covid-19 has on life as we knew it, education, academic and personal development must continue, an opinion by Sydney Malla - director of Abantu Educational Consultancy.
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Sacap (the South African College of Applied Psychology) has expanded its offering of progressive Human Resource Management (HRM) education programmes with the recent launch of a Bachelor of Social Science Honours degree in HRM. With a vision to develop HR practitioners who are high-performing leaders in the 4IR context, the Sacap Honours programme blends academic and practical skills to develop HR competencies whilst incorporating critical and analytical insight, research rigour, systemic thinking and ethical practice.
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While visits to the Cape Town Science Centre (CTSC) have been 'paused', the CTSC has launched an array of free online offerings for learners across South Africa. The most recent addition is the Matric Masterclasses, which launched on 4 July 2020, and will be held every Saturday at 10am. This is a collaborate initiative by the Western Cape Education Department and Astron Energy, the corporate sponsor.
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Reading Matters, distributor and supplier of educational books and resources in South Africa, has added a collection of YouTube video stories for young learners to its website.
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A wristband that allows you to identify at a glance which people have been temperature screened for Covid-19 (minimising risk of anyone accidentally being missed by screening or deliberately avoiding screening).
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As COVID-19 cases increased in Palestine, the General Union of Palestinian Teachers, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, led a project on e-learning. This has assumed greater significance as schools will not reopen in August as had been previously planned.
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