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education
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Wednesday Morning Spice
03 Oct 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Declare national crisis in education – Jansen. R5bn lifeline for SAA. AB: We let our country down. Gold Fields tells miners to pack and go. Department to probe Nkandla documents leak. Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track.
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Over 3 000 Teachers Will Join The Unemployment Line Next Year
01 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Ask anyone living in South Africa what the biggest issues facing this country are, and if they have two brain cells still knocking together the word “education” will definitely be mentioned. Which is why reading a headline such as this should have you deeply worried.
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DA Issues Challenge In Limpopo Textbook Saga
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The textbook saga in Limpopo has been dragging on for ages, and local politicians have seen this as a fantastic opportunity to make themselves look good. Well, the Democratic Alliance, at least. Some Limpopo schools are still without textbooks, in spite of government intervention and a court order from the North Gauteng High Court.
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Students Develop Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Speech [VIDEO]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A group of Ukrainian students are deservedly receiving a large amount of attention for a very impressive student project that has seen them qualify as one of the six finalists at this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup. They’ve invented a glove that can translate the movements made by sign language into speech.
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See-Through Edutainment Submarines Coming To Durban
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Durban is soon to set itself apart from other South African cities as a leader on the tourism front. A US hospitality group is planning a fleet of six see-through tourist submarines, underwater restaurants and nightclubs, and a 17 000-seat amphitheatre for live music performances on the KwaZulu-Natal coast.
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Move Over Bioplus: Chinese Students Cram For Exams With IV Drips Attached [PICS]
08 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
China is abuzz at the moment with pictures allegedly uploaded by a student at a high school in Hubei Province where learners are given amino acids on IV drips to help them study, while they study!. The photos were uploaded to one of China’s many Twitter-like micro-blogging sites, and we’ve got a full gallery, and the official explanation, after the jump!
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Durban UT Student Goes From Rags To Academic Riches
12 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Studies show SA students are only interested in brands, booze and food, but this Durban University of Technology student sets an awesome example for everyone who has to fight tremendous odds to make it somewhere through education. Read his awesome success story, after the jump!
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US “Monkey Bill” Will Protect Teachers Who Allow Students To Criticize Evolution And Global Warming
11 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Back in 1925, Dayton, Tennessee was home to the famous Scopes “monkey trial”, which saw teacher John Scopes violating a state statute by teaching evolution in biology. Almost a century of science, research and cultural development later they’re still dealing with the same problems.
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Madonna Scales Back Charity Efforts In Malawi
29 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 2009 Madonna broke ground for a new school in Malawi, side by side with the country’s Minister of Education. Now the singer’s plans to build a $15 million academy for girls have fallen by the wayside. Her Raising Malawi foundation announced recently that it would instead channel $300 000 into an existing NGO which builds schools, making some Malawians very unhappy.
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Helen Zille And The Eastern Cape “Health Refugee”
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Less than a week after Helen Zille’s latest Twitter-storm about comments she made about the state of education here in the Western Cape versus the same in our neighbours – she called students from the Eastern Cape who attend school here “refugees” – she has gotten all up in the ANC’s grille once more with fresh comments regarding the state of health here versus there.
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Presidency Enters Grabouw Fracas To Try Resolve Differences
27 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite a lull in tension, all is still not well in sleepy Grabouw. Residents are still at each others throats over the apparent discrimination in the administration of local school facilities. So much so, that the Presidency has taken an unusual step to actually do something about it. More of this alleged good governance after the jump!
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Sleepy Grabouw Reels After Violent Race Riot
20 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Black and coloured residents of sleepy Overberg town, Grabouw, were at each others’ throats yesterday as racial tensions exploded over attacks on a local school.
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Township School Gets Sponsored iPads [VIDEO]
20 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Late last month we reported how several posh Gauteng private schools were planning to make iPads mandatory learning aids in their classes, and now several rural schools are getting sponsored iPads for their learners, too. We like. We like a lot.
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Refugee Lands Maths Teacher’s Job By Explaining Equations To Passing Shoppers
09 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Eight years after leaving his home country, this Congolese refugee can finally say his expectations of a better future in South Africa have been met. Fernando Brice Olivier Ogadi, 35, has just received a job offer in the profession he is qualified in – as a school maths teacher. His new employer noticed him in a parking lot giving free maths lessons.
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Posh Gauteng School To Make iPads Mandatory
26 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
With the news that Apple looks set to revolutionise school learning with its textbook initiative, comes another report that a Johannesburg private school is going to make iPads compulsory this year, at parents’ cost. How long until other schools follow suit?
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‘Apple In Education’ Launches New Digital Educational Tools
20 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of their ‘reinvention of the textbook,’ Apple yesterday unveiled three new applications for use in the digital educational under their Apple in Education program: iBooks 2, iBooks Author, and iTunes U. The tools are designed to allow for interactive textbooks, digital textbook creation, and open-access educational resources from top universities, respectively.
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Oprah Is Back In SA This Weekend
13 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Regular visitor to South Africa, Oprah Winfrey, is in the country again. She’s here to attend the graduation of the first batch of girls to matriculate from her school, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. The former talk show host will also try to squeeze in a catch up with her buddy Madiba, if he’s up to it.
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American Universities Purchasing ‘.XXX’ Porn Domain Names
14 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The .xxx domain, set to launch by the end of the year, is meant to be the domain of choice for porn sites. Which is dandy, but means that opportunists could register ‘google.xxx,’ for instance, and capitalize on Google’s popularity – so American universities are purchasing .xxx domains to keep people from making porn sites with their names in them.
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UK Teachers Say Boys Mistake Academics With Homosexuality
24 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Black schoolboys in the UK are deliberately underachieving because academic success is seen as “gay”. Apparently there is a cultural misconception that being clever is a sign of homosexuality. Instead, many of these boys rather turn to a so-called “hustle culture” to make money, because it is more “manly”.
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SPL!NG Movie Review: The First Grader (2011)
21 Sep 2011 by SPLING / No Comments
The First Grader is the inspiring true story of Kimani Maruge, a Kenyan ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter, who at the age of 84 fought the system for his right to an education he could never afford. This powerful biographical drama tells of Maruge’s struggle as he and primary school teacher, Jane Obinchu, stood up to a community […]
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Brooklyn, New York – Where The Real Superheroes Shop
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
That’s right fellow civilians, superheroism is no longer reserved for super-babies in rockets from other planets. The days of microwaving spiders, trying to recreate Spidey’s powers are over! Behold, now you too can slip out during your lunch break and save the world, and all it will cost you is a ticket to the Big Apple.
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South African Scholars Get Two More Well-Deserved Long Weekends
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
To all the overworked and swamped scholars in South Africa, we’d like to say please hang on a little bit longer – help is on the way! The education department has announced that students will now also get June 17 and August 8 off from school. This is due to the those dates’ “proximity to public holidays”.
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Monday Education: Whales Have Threesomes
24 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well I don’t know about you, but I think marine biology just got slightly more interesting. A 2005 paper observing a menage a trois coupling between right whales recently appeared online, with photos that are NSFW but only if your boss knows what you’re looking at or has a working knowledge of whale genitalia.
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Must Have Book: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand
04 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you always wanted to get into rap music but never did because you don’t understand the lyrics? Well that’s now been taken care of by William Buckholz who took it upon himself to pen a book that “explains all the confusing lyrics and terms in rap songs via language that even your elderly relations can understand”. Finally.
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