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This Green Paper, launched by the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande in January 2012, identifies the key challenges facing South African higher education and sets out a path for overcoming these obstacles.

Teachers are the largest professionally trained group in the world, yet teacher training is often spotty, inconsequential, or missing entirely. We've all had a teacher who made the difference. Teachers Without Borders' founder, Dr. Mednick, will show the connection between excellent teachers and human welfare, on a global level. The message is clear: focus on the teachers as the most viable catalysts for positive change.

From 2009 every Grade 9 pupil will be writing a national certificate whether they are leaving school or not. This was one of five major policy changes announced by Minister of Education Naledi Pandor on Monday. Other changes include proposals to: Lower teacher pupil ratios; Rearrange districts into smaller more manageable areas; Get Internet into every school in the country by 2013; and, Expand Further Education and Training Colleges

Facilitating Online is a course intended for training educators as online facilitators of fully online and mixed mode courses. The Centre for Educational Technology (CET) produced a Course Leader's Guide as an Open Educational Resource to assist educators and trainers who wish to implement a course on online facilitation within their institution or across several institutions. The guide contains the course model, week-by-week learning activities, general guidance to the course leader on how to implement and customise the course and specific guidelines on each learning activity.

"A Danish - South African initiative offering Mobile solutions for Literacy Training and Skills Development."

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This seminar will explore ways to find resources, issues with creating and licensing them, and techniques for starting to share, both institutional projects and personally.

This free online diploma-level course from ALISON is a comprehensive review of project management. Project management involves the planning, organizing, securing and managing of resources to achieve the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. This course covers project management methodology, toolsets and documentation, and the project life cycle including analysis, planning, design and evaluation. The course also includes a project management case study. Qualifications in Project Management are in great demand internationally and this Diploma course will greatly enhance your career prospects.