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Mark Orpen Kicking off 2018, the priority for the Education and Training (ETD) and Management Training calendar is planning for the coming year ahead...read |
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The 2017 National Senior Certificate (NSC) overall pass rate is 75.1%, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga announced on Thursday evening, 4 January...read | 
Linda Ensor President Jacob Zuma's announcement of free higher education and training for poor and working class students will be phased in over five years to ensure the sustainability of government's financial resources...read |
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 | Lala Steyn Each year 11,848,000 pupils enroll in schools in South Africa, according to the NEP_South Africa.pdf World Bank. What lies ahead for these youngsters...? read | |  | GetSmarter By the year 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be made up of skills that aren't yet considered vital to the job today... read | |
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 | As part of a work experience programme, a total of 400 students from the Henley Business School UK MBA programme have donated around 80 hours of their time (32,000 man hours) to close on 70 Cape-based NGOs over the past decade... read |
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 | Late last week, the University of Cape Town (UCT) announced a tuition increase of 8%, along with a 10% hike for accommodation at all residences and a 12% rise for residence meal options in 2018... read |
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 | Linda Ensor Freedom Front Plus (FF-Plus) chairman Anton Alberts said the Constitutional Court's "lamentable" ruling was a "tremendous setback" for mother-tongue instruction as well as the development of indigenous languages in South Africa... read |
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 | Katharine Child Universities South Africa has warned potential students not to just walk into universities to try and apply at the last minute, saying such a situation could turn out deadly... read |
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 | Sipho Mabena The government has refused point-blank to reveal how much the free higher education announced by President Jacob Zuma is likely to cost, and where the money will come from, only that it will be within the approved national budget... read |
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 | Tremaine Van Aardt The EFF has reiterated that it wants every potential student to be registered as party members visit universities and colleges across the Eastern Cape this week, regardless of whether or not the institutions have space... read |
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 | Sasol Inzalo Foundation (SalF) is urging learners who have completed Grade 12 and have been admitted to an academic institution to apply for its all-inclusive bursary before the closing date, which is Friday, 19 January 2018... read |
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 | Linda Ensor A lobby group, the Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN), has brought an urgent high court application in Gauteng, to interdict the Council for Higher Education from proceeding with its decision to revoke the accreditation of the Walter Sisulu University's (WSU's) law degree... read |
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 | Over 30,000 pupils are yet to be placed in schools in Gauteng, according to the province's Education Department... read |
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 | FedEx has donated $90,000 (more than R1.2m) to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation (OWLAF), marking its third year of support... read |
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 | Issued By Ackermans Ackermans makes shoppers lives easier with its back-to-school offering... read |
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 | Following extensive renovations by Engen, Fairvale Secondary School in Durban will welcome in 2018 with a modern, fully furnished science lab... read |
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 | Samirah Kaka, a grade 9 learner from North West set about developing an innovative device to prevent accidents... read |
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 | Since 2011, BIC has supplied 7.3-million South African underprivileged children via its Buy a Pen, Donate a Pen programme with the relevant stationery tools to fulfil their basic educational needs... read |
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 | Nico Gous There were more bachelor passes at no-fee schools than fee-paying schools in 2017. That is what the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said on Thursday, 4 January, when she announced the matric results for 2017... read |
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 | Issued By EOH Coastal EOH launched the EOH Youth Job Creation Initiative in 2012, a programme aimed at creating work experience opportunities for skilled and unskilled young jobseekers... read |
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 | Having financial knowledge goes hand-in-hand with entrepreneurship, though too often entrepreneurs lack even basic financial savvy to make a success of their business... read |
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 | Tom Jackson South African tech-based learning institution WeThinkCode_, which offers free education to the software industry, will open its new Cape Town campus in January 2018... read |
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 | The hospitality industry is one in which increased automation is not a risk to the futures of careers as customer experience and satisfaction are indisputably dependent on the human factor... read |
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 | CNN Africa Voices recently met, Asnath Mahapa, the first African woman to become a pilot in South Africa... read |
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 | ManpowerGroup SA's managing director, Lyndy van den Barselaar, is of the opinion that the automated economy will open up employment opportunities for those with the right skillsets... read |
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