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Business

Godongwana meets with Joburg over collapsing finances

Today at 09:07 AM, via BusinessTech

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has met with the Executive of Johannesburg to discuss serious concerns raised by the National Treasury regarding the City’s finances.

Education

Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Senior academics describe the Judge business school’s proposal to provide services and training as ‘horrifying’

Cambridge University’s business school is seeking to provide “leadership development” and “innovation management” to Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry despite concerns over its government’s record on human rights and climate change, the Guardian has learned.

Cambridge’s leadership...

Education

‘One of the greatest invisible tragedies’: is the loss of childhood imagination inevitable?

Yesterday at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

We have created the most stifling and sanitised imaginative space conceivable for children, says teacher Brendan James Murray. Today true imagination has become a radical act

The six children sit together at the waterline in roaring wind. Seagulls dip and strain, beating their wings against the gusts as, far below, waves crest, thump, whisper. A girl, scarcely three years old, stands suddenly...

Education

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since 2017. Many of my students last wrote fiction in middle school, and very few have experienced a proper workshop, so at the start of every semester I offer these directions for writer and reader...

Education

How Students Interact With A.I. Is What Matters

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers discuss artificial intelligence and writing in the classroom. Also: President Trump’s latest assault on science; election workers.

Lifestyle

Top 50 South African scholarships in 2027

Today at 08:49 AM, via The South African

We’ve compiled a list of the top 50 South African scholarships in 2027, across a variety of job sectors. Which one will you apply for?