Since the coronavirus lockdown began, members of the 700-year-old lower House of Commons have been able to join debates via videolink, and this week...
Nyakallo Tefu
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has tabled the department's risk-based plan to save the 2020 academic year at universities and TVET colleges.
Nzimande's...
The Covid-19 outbreak closed
universities and other tertiary education institutions in 175 countries and
communities, affecting over 220 million post-secondary students.
While some institutions moved their
classes to online...
Samera Al-Samarrai
Picking up the newspaper in recent weeks would have been difficult if you were an education minister. Not only would you have been...
A media briefing to announce the Department of Basic
Education’s preparations towards the re-opening of schools has been postponed
until further notice.
Basic Education Minister Angie...
Saturday Classes?
US Schools Mull Ways To Make Up Lost Time
Students returning from their unprecedented break from school could find
themselves making up lost time in...
The COVID-19 pandemic – and the
resulting lockdowns – have had a major impact on research at institutions
across the world, and universities in particular.
Research
is one...
A
loud hiss and grunt come from a green bag pressing air through a tube, as
Senegalese researchers work to develop a prototype ventilator that could...
Nationwide closures in West and Central Africa are impacting 140 million children across the region, including forcibly displaced children who are integrated in national...