SA students are addicted to social media

South Africa’s students are addicted to social media – but are almost unanimous in the opinion that it enhances both their academic and social lives. In fact, they believe it may even help them during exam time. This was the key finding of the SA High-tech Student...

Students to showcase research at Spier

Students will get the chance to showcase their research at this year’s South African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC), to be held at the Spier WineEstate in the Western Cape from 1 to 4 September. SATNAC is recognised for the platform...

JCSE teaches students entrepreneurship

The Jo’burg Centre of Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University has successfully hosted an entrepreneurship training programme presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and funded internationally by Google. Known as “Accelerating IT...
SA students win on HPC stage

SA students win on HPC stage

The team of South African students that won the Student Cluster Competition at the recent International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Liepzig, Germany, entered the contest as the underdogs. South Africa was represented at the competition for the first time this...

CTI offers free tablets for students

CTI Education Group will become the first higher education institution in South Africa to offer its students tablet computers loaded with prescribed textbooks, at no extra cost. More than 2 000 who will start their degree studies at CTI in January will receive the new...