Skills academy opens in US and SA

Online educational specialist New Skills Academy has opened new offices in Chicago and Johannesburg. The two new sites join existing operations in Nepal, Tanzania and its HQ in Ware, Hertfordshire. The opening of the new offices comes as the award-winning online...

Tech enthusiast makes maths fun

A mobile phone app developed by a University of KwaZulu-Natal Computer Science student is set to make high-quality maths education free and accessible to students from various socio-economic backgrounds. Open Omnia is a web-based programme which aims to assist...

Free online courses from Cisco

Cisco has released seven free, self-enrol online courses to help South Africans to develop their digital skills, and has pledged to train an additional 100 000 students by 2020. Underpinned by the Cisco Networking Academy, which celebrates its 20th year in South...

Automated cryptocurrecy bond issuance completed

The world’s first fully automated cryptocurrency-denominated bond issuance that is also cleared, settled and registered on a public blockchain infrastructure has been completed by Nivaura, a fintech company that developed a cloud-based service for the issuance...

Altron invests R4m in SA’s youth

JSE-listed Altron’s Altech Radio Holdings (ARH) has handed over ICT laboratories worth a total of R4-million to three Gauteng schools to enhance the teaching process and improve the learner experience. The handover, the second phase of ARH’s ICT community...

SA students learn about mechatronics

More than 600 South African high school students have graduated from the Introduction to Mechatronics (i2M) training program, the brainchild of GE and Digicate. After six weeks of training in Robotics through e-learning modules, the top 30 students from the program...