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Simkins C and Pereira C. (2005). Johannesburg: JET Education Services.

Exploring a Work-Based Values Approach in South African TVET Colleges to Improve Employability of Youth: Literature review

A literature review in which we consider an opportunity for systemic change from a perspective that, in our view, is largely under researched in South Africa as well as internationally: that of student, lecturer and employer values, specifically values related to working and workplaces.

Fake news about COVID-19: The impact on high school learners in southern Africa

SADC Researchers Challenges THEME 6: Curbing the spread of fake news in Southern Africa - what we can and cannot do: Final report

On 22 April 2020, a virtual meeting involving over 80 individuals gathered to hear first-hand from the Department of Basic Education the plans being put in place to support learners and teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic period.

Inequality remains pervasive in the South African education system. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only shown the fault lines, but is deepening them at an alarming rate, and in a manner that may take many more years to undo. In this contribution, based on findings fro our Researchers Bootcamp, we talk to the need to provide basic rights, as set out in the Freedom Charter, such as health, safety and nutrition, while we cast the net wider to consider aspects of data privacy, online learning and governance.

From eMpela to Project DROID: a review of two ICT4E initiatives in South Africa

Summary paper prepared for the UNESCO & ITU Mobile Learning Week: Skills for a connected world, 26-30 March 2018, Paris.

Getting schools working: Research and systemic school reform in South Africa

Taylor N., Muller, J., and Vinjevold, P. 2003. Getting schools working: Research and systemic school reform in South Africa. Pearson South Africa.