Producing over 40% of teachers in South Africa
2024-06-19 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
"My journey as a 28-year-old PhD student and educator"
Speaking on Future Club Radio during Youth Month, Carlo Daniels, a dedicated lecturer and academic at Unisa, shared his unique journey and passion for promoting education as a tool for personal growth and societal change.
2024-06-18 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
A response to the reading crisis: Enhancing language teaching by integrating technology
The most recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study revealed that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa could not read for meaning in any language. Because of this, the EFAL engaged scholarship team from the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies in CEDU recently offered in-service training over three days for intermediate and senior phase teachers.
2024-05-30 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
Unisa strengthens partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning
In his meeting with the university's executive management team, Prof Peter Scott, President of the Commonwealth of Learning, emphasised the importance of deepening and strengthening collaborative bonds with open and distance eLearning institutions such as Unisa.
2024-05-22 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
Petrol attendant becomes first graduate in the family
Unisa has, for 150 years, made access to education possible for all. Access to education through Unisa continues to be a fundamental tool for development and increased prosperity for many. This is particularly true in the case of Masutane Othilia Sebetha, a 38-year-old wife, mother of three, firstborn and a breadwinner who is the first to graduate in her family.
2024-05-22 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
Hard work earns Chawane a Bachelor of Education degree (Cum Laude)
Zamekile Mukelisiwe Chawane of Mkhuhlu township, Mpumalanga, adopted the principles of working hard and staying focused during her studies. As a result, she earned herself a Bachelor of Education dCum Laude), awarded at the Unisa Autumn 2024 Graduations held in Mbombela.
2024-05-14 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
Rector of the University of Cienfuegos addresses Unisa conference
Under the leadership of Prof Velisiwe Gasa, Unisa's College of Education (CEDU) recently hosted its signature interdisciplinary conference on Teacher Education and Interdisciplinary Research, featuring a keynote address by Dr Orquidea Urquiola Sánchez.
2024-05-10 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Corporate
What do early-career researchers really need?
Writing in The Conversation, Unisa's Professor Mpho-Entle Modise and co-author Emeritus Professor Maureen Robinson state that South Africa's young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs.
2024-04-24 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Lead, Featured, Dept Inclusive Education, Corporate
Education MEC addresses Unisa autism seminar
Speaking at the university's World Autism Awareness and Acceptance Seminar on 23 April, The Honourable Matome Chiloane, Gauteng MEC for Education, said that the provincial government wants society to celebrate people on the autism spectrum and recognise their unique challenges.
2024-03-25 00:00:00.0 | Category:
College of Education, Featured, Regional, Dept Education Foundation
College Of Education hosts WiLM workshop in KZN
The Women in Leadership and Management (WILM) project recently held a two-day data collection workshop at the Durban Campus, KwaZulu-Natal Region. Attended by school principals, deputy principals, and departmental heads from the Greater Durban area, the project aimed to break the barriers to access to equitable leadership at schools.