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Public education and 4IR

access to digital learning

It’s music to our ears that coding and robotics are being formally rolled out as a subject in government schools from this year. The South African education system needs to keep pace with the next-generation subjects if we are to be competitive – and confident – participants in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

However, the dream of tech-savvy classrooms is, in some cases, out of step with the on-the-ground reality, and this is where the importance of forging partnerships between the public and private sectors and civil society comes to the fore.

We run an education nonprofit in rural Mpumalanga and the

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