Survey of e-Learning in Africa

UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair in ICT for Development recently released their Survey of e-Learning in Africa. This report summarises information about the status of e-learning in Africa based on 316 responses to a questionnaire circulated in 2007 to people on the e-Learning Africa database. Respondents to the survey were from 42 different African countries, with Kenya (15%), [...]

Do we need a four year degree?

According to an article published in the Mail and Guardian Newspaper Education minister Naledi Pandor has asked her advisory body, the Council on Higher Education, to look into the viability of a four-year undergraduate degree as a response to South Africa’s 50% university drop-out rate.
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SOUTH AFRICA: Government may re-create teacher colleges

Writer: Karen MacGregor, University World News
In a policy about-face, the South African government is considering re-creating teacher training colleges that it closed a decade ago. Teacher programmes at colleges were either shut down or incorporated into universities. A teacher college campaign is being driven by South African President-in-waiting Jacob Zuma, backed by political parties and [...]

UASA launches its 7th South African Employment Report

The United Association of South Africa (UASA) recently released their annual South African Employment Report, with the theme ”What are you worth?”. The report takes an analytical look at the differences in the price of labour based on race, background, education, place and province of employment, where and in which industries people earn the most, and the differences [...]