Education

Police have confirmed that Wynberg Girls’ High School in Cape Town is safe following a bomb threat that forced an evacuation on Friday morning. The incident marked the second such threat at the school within days and came during a critical examination period for Grade 12 learners writing the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams. According […]

Nelson Mandela University (NMU) has been struck by another tragedy following the death of a sixth student in just two months, deepening the sense of grief across the academic community. In a statement released on social media, the university confirmed that third-year Bachelor of Education student Thabiso Ernest Nini died by suicide in the early […]

The University of Cape Town (UCT) is set to discontinue using Turnitin, a tool previously employed to detect plagiarism and generative AI use in student submissions, as it rolls out a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education framework. Turnitin’s analysis often produced false positives or negatives, prompting concerns about fairness and accuracy, according to UCT. […]