Education industry a victim of inferior WiFi

The education and academic sectors are still wasting money on inferior WiFi solutions that simply don’t meet the needs of student – and what is more, they are not alone. According to Quentin Daffarn, MD at UC-Wireless, one of the top Ruckus Wireless Partners of...

Syspro wins at Education Excellence Awards

Leading provider of business software solutions, Syspro, has been recognised for its efforts aimed at skills development when it was recently named runner-up in the Corporate Educator of the Year category at SAPICS’s 2014 SCM Education Excellence Awards. This year’s...

Bureaucracy hinders education sector change

From the enablement of remote learning to the increased optimisation of back office business critical functions, the education sector has never faced a greater time of change. Leaders agree. Many South African leaders, political and non-political, emphasise education...

Johnson Controls drives NMMU improvements

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) is a South African higher education institution located along the country’s south eastern coastline in the city of Port Elizabeth. It offers vocational training and professional degrees up to doctoral level, has six...

Every school in SA could have computers

Application delivery company Cloudware says every school in South Africa could have 100 Internet-connected computers within four years – and it would cost no more than what the government is already planning to spend on a private cloud alone, says Jonathan...

Mobility ushers in new era of education

The growth of the mobile computing space and proliferation of devices represents a force to be reckoned with, impacting virtually all industries and sectors. ICT consulting and service development specialist Ukuvuma Solutions points to the convergence of mobile...