Considering the current lockdown, there is understandably an impact on planned skills development initiatives; classroom training is restricted, but workplace skills planning is still due at the end of May, and BBBEE strategies and aligned budgets are rigorously being discussed around the board room table. Omni HR Consulting's head of operations Cindy Londt and compliance and risk manager Jasmine Sultan discuss the way forward and how the company is adapting.
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While acknowledging that teachers had already been offered training to help them develop the skills needed to deliver online classes before the COVID-19 crisis had begun, educators should be better trained in the area according to an education trade union in Cameroon. Authorities should ensure that teachers are well-equipped to carry out on-line education. It also maintains that distance learning should take place in better conditions and that access to it should be available throughout the country.
Members of Senegal’s teaching unions fear the rapid aggravation of the coronavirus crisis in their country and are taking action to ensure teacher and pupil safety, as well as educational continuity.
The Covid-19 pandemic has created profound disruptions in our economy and society. Due to these new challenges, most universities have decided to move from face-to-face classes to online teaching (more accurately defined as emergency remote teaching and learning) so as to complete the 2020 academic year, and to prevent the spread of the virus.
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As the national lockdown saw the closure of schools and regular teaching methods, and the rise of homeschooling and virtual classrooms, companies in the edtech space have found it's their time to shine.
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The current pandemic has highlighted the vital role that virtual learning environments (VLEs) can play in maintaining education, especially at a time when access to teachers has been significantly reduced for many students. It is clear that VLEs have the capacity to take some of the burden off teachers. Whilst this high level of dependence on technology is by no means sustainable, it does demonstrate how VLEs are well positioned to maintain engagement with learning, interact with students, and support teachers' workloads.
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The current pandemic has highlighted the vital role that virtual learning environments (VLEs) can play in maintaining education, especially at a time when access to teachers has been significantly reduced for many students. It is clear that VLEs have the capacity to take some of the burden off teachers. Whilst this high level of dependence on technology is by no means sustainable, it does demonstrate how VLEs are well positioned to maintain engagement with learning, interact with students, and support teachers' workloads.
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Although they believe the XGEST platform distance learning initiative launched by the Ministry of Education is worth trying out during the COVID-19 initiative, teachers, through their representative organisation, the Syndicat de l'Éducation Nationale say that they have strong reservations as to whether all students can access it. They therefore insist on a reorganisation of the school year when the situation returns to normal.
For the majority or learners, matric is the most challenging year of their school careers - even under normal circumstances. The current circumstances facing the Class of 2020 are unprecedented, and have caused massive upheaval and uncertainty on top of the challenges they would ordinarily have faced. Even so, there are ways learners can adjust and respond to ensure they still make a success of the year, an education expert says.
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The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has urged qualifying students to open bank accounts to ensure a more efficient disbursement of funds from institutions.
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