Youth and education
Hi-tech classroom for better learning
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- 28 November 2012
Stellenbosch University has launched a new high-tech teaching space on its campus. The experimental classroom is encouraging social learning among students and stimulating brain functioning through new ways of teaching and presenting information.
• A fun approach to science teaching
One step closer to better education
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- 21 November 2012
Equal Education has won the first round of its fight against the education minister for the recognition of the basic rights of pupils in South Africa’s poorest schools.
• Education in South Africa
Getting internet from the sun
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- 20 November 2012
An award-winning internet-access project for schools, first piloted at a Johannesburg school a year ago by electronics giant Samsung, is proving so popular that other African countries will soon benefit.
• Up-cycling for a better community
Cartier finalist fights illiteracy in South Africa
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- 14 November 2012
A South African entrepreneur was shortlisted as a finalist in the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, an annual international initiative to identify, support and encourage projects by women entrepreneurs worldwide.
• Transforming waste to wealth
Three for one in education
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- 09 November 2012
Three private schools in Johannesburg are extending a helping hand to a smaller school for underprivileged pupils, and the positive results of their work are evidence of a strong network with no end in sight.
• Pupils have a blast with Mathletes
Free MBA education for anyone
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- 08 November 2012
A South African tertiary education institution has become the first business school in the world to offer free education on four levels, ranging from a certificate through a diploma and bachelor’s degree, up to an MBA.
• Take-away content to help pupils
2012: bornfrees'(w)rite of passage
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- 19 October 2012
The class of 2012, which features the first group of South Africa's bornfrees to complete their school career, will start writing their national senior certificate on Monday 22 October.
• Education in South Africa
