Education is interactive with AR, VR

At some point during a child’s schooling, they will need additional assistance that static workbooks and textbooks alone cannot provide. While computers and tablets have opened more opportunities for students to engage with their subject matter in the last decade,...

Smartick helps with maths homework

Helping your children with their school homework these days is enough to give any parent anxiety. Having to differentiate between mathematics and mathematics literacy and the modern curriculum can be baffling. Smartick, an online afterschool maths program supported by...

Digital Academy targets youth development

The Digital Academy, an alternative learning institution aimed at software development and technology job-seekers, has set the tone for everyone out there talking too much and moving too little. “We are trying to solve real problems in the only way we know how,...

Green light for Unilever green desk

Pupils at two impoverished schools who have had to make do with sharing a desk need no longer compromise their academic outcomes thanks to a partnership between Unilever and The Wildlands Conservation Trust. Skeen Primary School in Alexandra, east of Johannesburg and...

Wipro, IDC partner on Whole School Development Project

Wipro has provided two ICT laboratories to two schools in Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga in partnership with South Africa’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). As part of the IDC’s Whole School Development Programme which was launched in 2012 with the...

Microsoft SA, partners launch online portal to empower students

Microsoft South Africa, together with Intervate and 2enable, have created a portal for young South Africans called Mahala.ms. Through this portal young people can activate licenses for the Microsoft Office 365 suite and OneDrive cloud-based storage services free of...