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Books to iSithumba Adventures to Inspire Young Minds

April 1, 2025 By teachadmin

Isithumba Travels Adventure Park, the busy rural tourism and community empowerment initiative in the Valley of 1000 Hills, near Durban, which works in partnership with Green Corridors, has received a generous donation of books from the Denis Hurley Street Lit Project. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Africa, Books, Featured, Literacy, News, South Africa, Tourism Tagged With: books, South Africa, tourism

Students warned of bogus colleges

December 12, 2014 By teachadmin

sa students

South Africa - The Department of Higher Education and Training has urged potential students to verify the accreditation of any private college or university before enrolling for studies. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News, South Africa Tagged With: South Africa, Students

Where are tomorrow’s software engineers?

May 27, 2014 By teachadmin

JCSE - Prof Barry

The struggle to increase the number of graduating software engineers has been an ongoing challenge throughout the last two decades. The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) Director and Head of Software Engineering at Wits University, Prof Barry Dwolatzky says that while there are improvements, South Africa’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Employment, Featured, News, South Africa, Technology Tagged With: Education, software engineers, South Africa

SA students receive scholarships from Sweden

May 13, 2014 By teachadmin

sweden scholarships

Ten South African students have been selected for a Swedish post-graduate scholarship programme. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Environment, Featured, Health, News, Scholarships, South Africa, Students, Sweden Tagged With: scholarships, South Africa, Students, Sweden

Learners’ idea strikes gold

March 26, 2014 By teachadmin

innovative learners

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...]

Filed Under: Business, Featured, News, South Africa, Technology Tagged With: Innovative, Learners, South Africa, Technology

Hope to Read the Future

October 17, 2013 By teachadmin

Scottdene HS

In a country where illiteracy among primary learners is a prevalent challenge, there are hints of hope. The 2012/2013 Stats SA report notes that "more than nine-tenths (92, 9%) of South Africans are able to read and write". … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Literacy, News, South Africa Tagged With: Laurence Singini, Lietracy, South Africa

Research data for SA

August 7, 2013 By teachadmin

online data

South Africa’s minister of science and technology Derek Hanekom has launched the South African version of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO-SA). It’s a searchable full-text journal database that is completely open-access – that is, free to access and free to publish. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News, South Africa, Technology Tagged With: Derek Hanekom, SciELO-SA, South Africa, Technology

Teaching, the best mistake

March 8, 2013 By teachadmin

Teach South Africa

Johannesburg – Bilkes Bhano Vawda accidentally registered for the wrong course when she first went to university many years ago, but now after spending 38 years in the teaching profession, she says it is the best mistake she has ever made. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Employment, Featured, News, South Africa Tagged With: Career, South Africa, Teach

Hard work pays off

January 3, 2013 By teachadmin

South Africa Matric

Johannesburg – Twelve long years of blood, sweat and tears proved to be worth it on Wednesday as the country’s top matric achievers were honoured for their sterling efforts in a an award ceremony held after the official announcement of the 2012 National Senior Certificate (NSC) exam results. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, News, South Africa Tagged With: 2012, Matric, NSC, South Africa

Annual National Assessment 2012

December 3, 2012 By teachadmin

Annual National Assessment

Pretoria - The results of the 2012 Annual National Assessment (ANA) show the numeracy and literacy performance of South African learners in the lower grades has improved. "Learner performance in the Foundation Phase Grades 1, 2 and 3 is pleasing. There is progress also in the Intermediate Phase Grade 4, 5 and 6," … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Literacy, News, Numeracy, South Africa Tagged With: 2012, ANA, Grades, Learners, Literacy, Numeracy, South Africa

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