Archive for the 'Education' Category

Bridgewater Delivers PC Literacy Training to Call Centre Staff

Through our partners, HST, we have a new programme in PC literacy training that has just been launched! It’s designed to boost learner confidence when working with a PC and help the learner achieve great results by easily retaining the information.
It is a PC basics suite that consists of 6 chapters:

PC Orientation
Windows XP
Internet Explorer
Outlook Express
Excel
PowerPoint

The programme is user-friendly, […]

How to Choose an e-Learning Supplier

There is increasing interest in South Africa in using e-Learning to lower the costs of training and improve effectiveness. The issue is in getting started and how best to do this? We’ve written this post to be of assistance to those companies wanting to start training via e-Learning to outline the various options as clearly […]

The Dire State of South African Education

 
I’ve just finished reading a rather worrying article in the Financial Mail (Dec 7, 2007) (I’ve been away for a few weeks so please forgive the delay in my reading of this!).
The article is titled “Why SA Fails its Children” and it outlines the differences between a worldwide McKinsey report on what makes for successful […]

Is free thought being taught at schools?

I’ve recently completed a stint at UCT, lecturing a course in Digital Marketing to a group of second and third year students. While I found their responses in class to be enlightening, their written work left much to be desired. My experience, I think, points to a problem in the schooling system that provides students […]