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Graduates from public colleges skilled in plumbing, welding and building could soon find themselves employed by the Gauteng education department.

A university degree may do more than help you earn more at your job (or just find you a job in the first place) — a new study suggests it could also be linked with better health.

Frequent playing of computer games appears to reduce teenagers’ chances of going to university, whereas reading enhances the likelihood that they will study for a degree, according to research carried out by Oxford University that tracked 17 000 people born in 1970.

Recruitment agencies are being forced to provide suitable recruitment solutions for Generation Y’s “anywhere, anytime” approach; whilst addressing concerns surrounding viral recruitment.

What happens when you cross the world’s largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out.

Worried that too many tweets are mere pointless babble? So is Australia’s Griffith University, who recently made Twitter education part of the mandatory courseload for journalism students.

The Jules High School saga in Johannesburg — in which a female student was allegedly gang-raped while her classmates watched and videotaped — is one of many recent horrible and all-too-real scenarios from our schools. Whatever the outcome of this story, it is reason enough to take a closer look at how schools seem to…

An education analyst believes a government proposal that university students should learn an African language as a condition for graduation, would be good for the country.

OECD reviewed South Africa’s education, economic and innovation policies and strategies recently. CUT played host to the OECD delegation on 5 October 2010.