Jul 22, 2015
The University of Chicago and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has announced a new partnership to educate and train talented African students at AIMS centres across Africa.Thierry Zomahoun, president and CEO of AIMS and Eric Isaacs, provost of...
Mar 19, 2015
A South African start-up, Brighter Futures Tuition, has developed an innovative mobile platform that helps learners improve their maths marks by up to 14% within a matter of months. This is against a backdrop of severe criticism of the performance of South Africa’s...
Sep 2, 2014
“South Africa needs to quadruple the number of engineering graduates per year,” says the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor. She was speaking at the official opening of the UNESCO Africa Engineering Week at the University of Johannesburg...
Jun 3, 2014
A neurologist who became a classroom teacher will explain how best to stimulate young people’s brains to process information into knowledge and wisdom during the upcoming SABC Education African EduWeek, to be held in Johannesburg in July. Thousands of teachers and...
Jun 3, 2014
The 2014 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Information Technology Report has ranked South Africa’s maths and science education quality as the worst in the world. Furthermore, the overall perceived quality of our education system has also plummeted from 140 to 146 of...
