South Africa Education News

GetYourLearners.co.za, a Learner's Licence website, relaunches its website, giving it a fresh new look and offering better testing mechanisms.

Did you miss your copy of the FREE monthly newsletter for the professional body for coaching and mentoring in South Africa? The topic for December 2011 was the Neuroscience of Coaching. Go to www.comensa.org.za to subscribe.

Casterbridge Music Development Academy to perform at Mbombela Stadium on 17 December 2011

Now, you might ask. How will marketing videos work when published online? How can it influence viewers?

Whether you have a small, start-up business or a multi-million enterprise, you need people whom you can trust. This does not only include those within your organisation, but those from outside the company, too.

Thus, it is important to make online portals as enticing as possible. With that in mind, a Web developer must be hired to do the job.

ESMA Aviation Academy announced today the extension of its network to Africa through a representation agreement inked with Hi-Fly Marketing, a South African based aviation services company.

It can be very difficult for first-time job seekers to find employment. Most often, this is because school leavers, even university graduates, simply don’t have any real-world, practical experience that they can offer to their potential employers.

Secretaries who wish to upskill without uprooting their career can consider developing bookkeeping or legal skills. This can lead to a raise or promotion, or perhaps even a new job, but without the hassle of starting from scratch.

Are you in the process of recruiting?It is vital that your new employees’ induction training is effective not only in familiarising them with your business and the work they will be doing

One of the most important functions that a human resources manager fulfils is recruiting new employees to the company.

Employees are any business’ most important assets – they are the human resources that create products, provide services and keep the business going.

You don’t own your brand – at least, not in the way you think you do.

Marketers and consumers are constantly in conflict

Paralegals, sometimes called legal assistants, are integral members of the legal profession in South Africa.

Paralegals, also known as legal secretaries, are an important and often overlooked resource. They need not be confined to positions in legal offices.

Paddocks is a specialist sectional title training firm that provides a range of products and services throughout South Africa. Paddocks is headed by Prof Graham Paddock, who is an authority on sectional title law and practice.

Traditionally, the management of projects is set apart from the management of day-to-day tasks.

Millions of people love tuning in to the hit reality show The Apprentice – the US version features Donald Trump putting a group of aspiring job candidates through tough business challenges.

Teaching a person a new skill is one of the best and most rewarding ways to empower them.

If Bill Gates is excited about online education, you should be, too. In a letter for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates focused on the power of the internet in improving and widening access to education.

The Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) welcomes guests to get involved in a hands-on approach to conservation and wildlife educational programmes through the Centre’s ‘Cheetah Conservation Training Programme’.

World Tourism Day is celebrated on 27 September each year as a day earmarked by the United Nations to celebrate tourism and its social, economic and environmental benefits.

The Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) welcomes guests to get involved in a hands-on approach to conservation and wildlife educational programmes through the Centre’s ‘Cheetah Conservation Training Programme’.

The International Hotel School is running a competition open to Matric students. You could win R750 worth of Kalahari vouchers by telling IHS who inspired you to study further after school. Enter on the IHS Facebook page!

PlasticsSA (PFSA) will be embarking on a 1 year pilot project with Whisper Boat Building Academy (WBBA) to train 30 deaf students of the Cape Town Boatbuilding and Technology Initiative in the art of working with composites during the next year.

Finding a Community College that offers a course that you want can be a daunting task. There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration. This is a long term commitment and it needs to be treated like one.

A new tutoring service in Cape Town, South Africa, are helping students in the upcoming exams with their unique tutoring service to University, High School and Primary school students.

Timeless Toys is excited to announce that all the wonderful wooden and classic pre-school toys synonymous with the Timeless Toys brand, are now available in the Southern Suburbs.

Motivational speaker Tony Dovale offers a new talk that incorporates, Appreciative Inquiry, NLP, Innergetics, and Neuro Marketing. He offers coaching, facilitation, and keynote presentations to transform – thoughts, feelings, moods and actions.

While activists across the globe were uniting for 350.org’s Global Work Party, a Hartbeespoort community led by Henning and Thea Holm of Omnibus Engineering gave a push to local grassroots activism and environmental education.

Henning and Thea Holm of Omnibus Engineering have taken up the challenge this Global Action Day and will be simultaneously helping underprivileged schools in their area and launching the biggest Global Action Day campaign in South Africa.

If we look around there are several definitions of success in the world today. We have become a culture obsessed with looks, fortune and fame. My concern is that it is becoming our only benchmark for success.

We add to our range of Partnerships, with WebAnywhere and their impressive SchoolJotter and StudentJotter.

This is an opportunity to sponsor a Money Management Workshop for a Community of Your Choice

A new team building process is applied to old style team building events transforming results. This fresh approach alleviates old style problem solving, and creates an honest space to address employee engagement and team motivation.

Distinguished global business leader and entrepreneur, Dr Johann Rupert, has been appointed as the 14th Chancellor of Stellenbosch University (SU), pledging his support to changing the nature of education.

Cape Town gets its first accredited Cisco Entrepreneur Institute training centre

"New Decade: New Business - Strategies for Take-off", is a course which offers a unique approach to business revival & growth. Using the internet & its many free applications to market, engage and network will be extensively addressed.

“Lion Country” opened to rave reviews and a staggering 4.8 million viewers during prime time in the UK on Wednesday 6th January. The documentary showcases a lion conservation volunteer project, and is hosted by past volunteer David Youldon

Leading voluntourism organization African Impact is delighted to introduce their new website which offers prospective travelers a great resource for responsible voluntourism and gap year travel in Africa, internships, safaris and adventure travel.

At African Impact they considers themselves the African Specialists in volunteer travel. Their British Youth Travel Awards Nomination for Green Travel in 2009 is further testimony to their passion and dedication to what they do.

Nairobi, Kenya, November 10, 2009 – The Enablis Entrepreneurial Network in Nairobi hosted a delegation from the YPO at one of its networking events. These events give Enablis members the opportunity to “sell” their products to a large audience.

In an industry that is currently buzzing, and with its fair share of cynics, this family-run African voluntourism organization has been built with passion and pride and is rapidly taking the lead as the industry's most renowned African-based operator

Stress Management in the workplace one day workhop held at Pretoria, South Africa

As you consider all the benefits of stress management, then I'm sure you will want to experience it for yourself

It is wonderful to be free as a teacher to use my own initiative and creativity in a responsible way, and consciously to experience inner development in the children and myself.

Out with the old consulting - in with the new financial education business. Focusing only on earning money and not on managing and growing it is a mistake many consultants make, says top consultant.

The 1+1=1 Pledge Drive South Afirca gets under way from Hoedspruit on Friday, 24 April 2009. The aim of this campaign is to create a country-wide spirit of environmental and social tolerance, AND, to compliment a global conservation initiative.

This course is for anyone who has ever wanted to earn their living through writing or wants to simply improve their skills. This course will give you the tools to write newspaper and magazine articles, press releases and edit copy.