Results from PIRLS 2006 International Report is shocking!

South Africa’s Grade 4s & Grade 5s came last in a study of 40 countries that took part in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2006. This was revealed yesterday at the release of the South African results at a news conference in Irene, South Africa by Prof Sarah Howie and her team from the Centre for Evaluation Assessment at [...]

School Realities 2006 Report (DoE)

 
In 2006, there were 12 302 236 learners in ordinary public and independent schools in South Africa, who attended 26 292 schools and were served by 386 595 educators. These data are from the School Realities 2006 Report that was compiled by the South African Department of Education from a survey conducted on the 10th [...]

Neil de Kock leaves Education Library for internship.

Neil de Kock one of the shelvers at the Education library has resigned  to take up an internship at the National Cultural History Museum.  We wish him great success in his future career!

Web 2.0 for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

The Obervatory on Borderless Higher Education Published an interesting report in August 2007 on “Web 2.0. for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education”. This report authored by Tom Franklin founder of Franklin Consulting, an Education Technology Consultancy and Mark Van Harmelen an independent ICT consultant who works in education and technology enhanced learning at the University of [...]

New scanning workstation in library

  Good news! A scanning workstation has been installed in the library where clients can scan materials, photos and images into electronic format, for use in assignments, presentations, papers, research etc. The workstation is available on the Ground Level of the Education Library

New Staff Member at the Education Library

We recently welcomed a new staff member at the Education Library: Maggie Moropane. Maggie has been appointed as Information Specialist for B.Ed(Hons) students as well as for M.Ed students. She will also take responsibility for the collection building for the Curriculum Studies as well as Arts, Languages and Human Movement Studies departments. We wish her all [...]

History of the Education Library at UP

Need to know more about the Education Library at the University of Pretoria? The history of the Education Library is now available at: http://www.library.up.ac.za/edu/HistoryEduLib.pdf

Library Web Page’s URL is changing

Our Library Web Page’s URL is changing from http://www.ais.up.ac.za/edu/ to http://www.library.up.ac.za/edu/ in line with the changing of our department’s name from Academic Information Service to Department of Library Services