The private sector needs to partner with government in providing digital technologies to schools in a bid improve the standard of education countrywide.
This according to Jamie Martin, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Injini, EdTech Incubator, an organization aimed at empowering teachers, entrepreneurs and individual citizens across the Africa to improve education through technology. He said it was imperative for government and business to collaborate to improve the quality of education.
NACI and the KZN HSRC hosts a workshop to launch the 2016 STI indicators report. The event was held on the 6 October 2017 at the Garden Court South Beach in Durban under the theme "Science, Technology and Innovation indicators for sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development: where are we?"
South Africa and the Netherlands are proud to announce that in May 2017, the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa and Nuffic (the Dutch Organisation for Internationalisation in Education), signed a Memorandum of Agreement to enable at least 50 South African students to study towards a PhD in the Netherlands between 2018 and 2022.
The Memorandum of Agreement implements the 2015 bilateral Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the field of science and technology between South Africa and the Netherlands.
The Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, arrived in China last night to attend the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Ministerial Meeting.
The two-day meeting (from 17 to 18 July 2017), themed "Leading through Innovation and Deepening Cooperation", will address topics such as BRICS STI policies, cooperation in thematic areas, co-funding multilateral research and development projects, youth innovation and entrepreneurship, and science park cooperation.
