Educators need help with the cloud

There’s no shortage of comment about how the pandemic fast-tracked digitisation, where companies that may have been delaying the inevitable had their hands forced by the biggest black swan event in living memory. By Esther Matshego, senior specialist: licensing...

The evolving role of school IT departments as education changes

Not long ago, school IT departments were merely seen as a branch of school operations that provided support and maintenance for hardware and software. However, with over 1,2-billion children globally1 affected by school closure during Covid-19, school IT departments...

Education costs plus lack of skills equals unemployment

The cost of tertiary education has increased by 4.2% in 2022, making access to education a challenge for many South Africans. This, coupled with rising inflation and the lingering financial impact of the pandemic, has left almost a quarter of students unable to repay...

Online learning can never replace classroom training

Covid changed the world and the training landscape with it. Distance learnerships and online learning proliferated through necessity but now that life and learning are returning to some semblance of normality, does this form of training still have a place in skills...