Mbombela - A group of innovative learners, who came up with an idea to install sensors in visually impaired people's walking sticks to help them navigate easily, has been crowned the winners of the Business Idea Generation Competition. … [Read more...]
Young People Want To Be Engineers
There has been a sharp rise in the number of young people considering a career in engineering, Vince Cable announced this week. A BIS-commissioned survey has found that the number of 11-14 year olds thinking about working in engineering has … Continue reading →Young People Want To Be Engineers is a post … [Read more...]
Highest pass rate in 20 years
The national pass rate for the 2013 National Senior Certificate has increased by 4.3% to 78.2%, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced on Monday night. The figure is the highest since 1994. Announcing the highlights of the Class of 2013 matric results at the SABC studios in Auckland Park, Motshekga … [Read more...]
Gauteng Education unveils new schools
The opening of a new secondary school in Palm Ridge, east of Johannesburg, will ease overcrowding in classrooms and resolve transport problems for learners who had to travel too far away areas to get an education. Gauteng Education unveils 17 new schools As the little ones made their emotional first appearance at … [Read more...]
Shackleton Lounge Opened by Innovation Academy
The Shackleton Lounge a new purpose-built innovation space was opened by the Innovation Academy, UCD on Friday. Located in the O’Brien Centre for Science at the heart of the Belfield campus, the new innovation space will act as a catalyst for innovation and will be the home of students of Innovation, … [Read more...]
Higher Education White Paper
The Department of Higher Education and Training has officially launched a White Paper on Post School Education and Training, which sets out strategies to expand on the current delivery of education and training in South Africa for the period up to 2030. … [Read more...]
Irish Education Show Improvements
Ireland's results in the latest OECD PISA Report show encouraging signs of improvements within the education system, according to the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland. … [Read more...]
Learners benefit from wellness mobile units
The Departments of Health and Education in the Western Cape have launched a Wellness Mobile Service, which will see a fleet of five mobile units visiting schools across the province to screen Grade R and Grade 1 learners. The mobile units will increase access to health care services of learners in schools, particularly … [Read more...]
School nutrition programme false
Durban – KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Education, Senzo Mchunu, has rejected as “false” media reports suggesting that the School Nutrition Programme would discontinue as a result of a court action by certain service providers. The MEC’s spokesperson Muzi Mahlambi told SAnews that some 81 service providers took the Department … [Read more...]
Zululand Univ receives educational display
Pretoria – The Department of Science and Technology, in partnership with BMW South Africa, has donated a BMW 3 series educational display vehicle to the University of Zululand’s Science Centre in Richards Bay. Science and Technology Deputy Minister Michael Masutha handed over the third educational display car on … [Read more...]