For the internationally mobile executive – whether navigating a joint venture in Singapore, leading a multilateral negotiation for a development bank in Addis Ababa, or presenting quarterly results to a global board in London – a profound realisation eventually dawns: fluency in English is merely your boarding pass. It grants…
In boardrooms around the world, among the executives of the world’s most prestigious institutions, a quiet realisation is dawning. The global business arena no longer rewards mere English proficiency – it demands something far more sophisticated. I have worked as an English coach predominantly in France since 2018. And this…
The Future Tech Lab, a plug-in campus set up within the main campus of the University of Namibia (UNAM) in Windhoek by Finnish higher education institution the University of Turku (UTU) is not only helping to produce local software engineers but is at the forefront of student-led cross-cultural innovation through its remote linking of student collaborators in Namibia and Finland.
The South African Technology Network (SATN) and its local and international partners have been successful in applying to the European Commission to establish a South African chapter of the network for Higher Education Reform Experts (HEREs) – the first of its kind in Africa. Of the 1,005 eligible applications for…
Acknowledging the urgent need for the youth to be employed, the South African Technology Network (SATN), Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and Milzet Holdings – a skills development provider that offers a range of programmes for corporate learning and development – embarked on a partnership last year to actively assist young…
When the sciences and humanities collaborate, exceptional work is possible. This is the belief of the academics working in the Urban Futures Centre (UFC) at South Africa’s Durban University of Technology (DUT), particularly the street-level drug programme.
As South Africa faces catastrophic unemployment rates, the South African Technology Network (SATN) and various stakeholders are partnering to ensure that graduates “are no longer job seekers but job creators”.
Postgraduate education students from New York University (NYU) and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the United States are learning invaluable lessons in the teaching sector through a one-month programme based in South Africa.
The South African Technology Network (SATN) has partnered with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to launch a Staff PhD Capacity Enhancement Programme designed to raise the number and quality of PhDs coming out of universities of technology and previously disadvantaged universities in South Africa.
Join in the Lindt Easter hunt Who doesn’t enjoy chocolates over Easter? As much as I promise myself, I will not overindulge, Easter is the one time in the year when I cannot say no to chocolate-covered marshmallow eggs or bunnies of the milky variety. This Easter, Lindt SA will…
