SABC Education African EduWeek is widely regarded as the premier education event on the African continent. Now entering its 9th year, African EduWeek 2015, is taking place at the Gallagher Convention Center in Midrand on the 1st and 2nd July will showcase over 120 international exhibitors, host free-to-attend education seminars, offer a new high-level technology conference E-Tech Africa, as well as technical workshops designed to enhance teacher training and development. Get more details here.

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Oxford University Press (OUPSA), in celebration of their centenary, donated 20 000 dictionaries to children across the country. OUPSA donated 10 000 dictionaries and asked the public to donate another 10 000 by pledging online at no cost to them. The aim of the campaign was to create awareness about the value of education and language. The 20 000 dictionaries are now on their way to 200 schools across the country.

Watch the handover of the Every Child Deserves a Dictionary campaign here.

The government recently announced its plan to limit school textbooks to one per subject. Prof. Jonathan Jansen gives his opinion and the implications of the policy. “The combination of official incompetence and the corruption of the textbook industry makes the breathless statement that the new policy will eliminate inequality just another rhetorical spurt by officials more occupied with political impression management.”

Read the full article on Rand Daily Mail.

Poetry lovers will have a feast at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival with 15 poetry events – for every possible taste – spread over three days. Far from being the lesser literary cousin of the novel, the form’s popularity seems to increase year after year, lending itself, as it does, generously to both quiet reading and reading aloud.

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Today, 23 April 2015, the world will celebrate World Book Day.  The SA Booksellers association strives toward promoting a culture of reading and learning by supporting literary events and initiatives and by assisting its members to do so.

Read more on how you can celebrate this important day here.

The Nal’ibali reading-for-enjoyment campaign is launching the special children’s literacy rights poster below today to assert and affirm for children what they need to become inspired and competent readers and writers. Read more about the campaign here.