The DA is asking Parliament how EduSolutions came to be awarded a R200-million contract to deliver tablets, laptops and e-learning materials to Gauteng schools. The company, which was implicated in the 2012 Limpopo textbook crisis has won a lucrative Gauteng e-learning contact, and DA shadow deputy minister of basic education Desiree van der Walt says this should raise loud alarm bells.
The “Google Effect”, which is the impact on our memory of being able to find information online, has extended to include important personal information and mobile devices. A new study by Kaspersky Lab reveals that the majority of connected consumers across Europe can’t recall critical phone numbers from memory, including those of their children (53%), children’s schools (90%) and place of work (51%). Around a third could not remember their partner’s number – yet just four in 10 have forgotten their home phone numbers from when they were aged 10 to 15.