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Category: Education News

Sol Plaatje University’s School of Education is the largest of the University’s four schools.  Details and furth information is regularly shared by the School on its academic, research and events programme.  

Award-winning science project boosts teacher skills

June 17, 2022June 19, 2022 Mosima Mehlape

Sol Plaatje University’s (SPU) School of Education will train maths and science teachers across the Northern Cape in a multi-million-rand project. The University is one of six universities participating in the programme that has been established by SANRAL and the Read More …

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School of Education’s first visiting Fellow promotes language-teaching excellence at SPU

May 31, 2022April 25, 2023 Mosima Mehlape

Left to right: SPU Student at the seminar presentation with Ms Monica Boland, Ms Kopano Rwasoka, Dr Harry Kuchah Kuchah, Mr George Moloi and Ms Vuyo Makubalo. A four-week visit to Sol Plaatje University (SPU) by a Fellow of the Read More …

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Fishbowls, beans, fake money, mum, dad, gogo and mathematics

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

What do these have to do with mathematics? In this case, everything. The University of Free State’s (UFS) Family Math initiative is a programme, funded by SANRAL and developed by the Science for- the-Future (S4F) employees at UFS. Dr Cobus Read More …

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Alumnae on the move

October 15, 2021October 16, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

Tshegofatso Andries, a B.Ed student who was recently awarded her degree at Sol Plaatje University’s  (SPU) 2021 Virtual Graduation Ceremony, was appointed as a Core Lecturer for the Habitable Planet Workshop (HPW). This programme run by the Applied Centre for Read More …

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Call for Abstracts: SASHT Conference

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

Sol Plaatje University is pleased to announce that the School of Education will host the 34th South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) conference from 1-2 October 2021. Due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will Read More …

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Remembering Professor Audrey Msimanga

July 10, 2021January 26, 2022 Mosima Mehlape

You are invited to join the family, friends, and colleagues of the late Professor Audrey Msimanga in a service of remembrance and celebration of her life.  Please find below an invitation to the online Memorial Service hosted by WITS University in honour of Read More …

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SPU mourns passing of Prof Msimanga

June 30, 2021August 24, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

Dear SPU Community It is with great sadness that I inform you that Professor Audrey Msimanga, former Head of the School of Education, passed on yesterday. On behalf of Sol Plaatje University (SPU), I extend our sincere condolences to Professor Read More …

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Alumni crowned Miss Kimberley 2021

April 1, 2021August 4, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

Sharon Van Staden’s life will never be the same. The 22-year-old from Roodepan, Kimberley, achieved her lifelong dream when she was crowned Miss Kimberley 2021 on 19 December 2020 at the Northern Cape Theatre. Mr and Miss Kimberley is an Read More …

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#Breadchallenge drives soup kitchen

October 9, 2020March 18, 2021 Mosima Mehlape

Buza Ndebele, a second-year BEd student at SPU, started a Facebook and WhatsApp challenge using the #breadchallenge during the national lockdown that turned into a community benefit project aimed at feeding the underprivileged community of Wolmaransstad. “We have a lot Read More …

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Teacher’s Day celebration

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Mosima Mehlape

Sol Plaatje University’s School of Education (SPU SoE) and the Northern Cape Department of Education (NC DoE) invite you to a virtual celebration of World Teacher’s Day. In 1994 UNESCO established World Teachers’ Day to appreciate the world’s educators and Read More …

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