European and African EduLAw members attended the sessions on the Africa Initiative. The event was organized bij de European Commission in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation of South Africa. The DSI provided an overview of its priorities Read More …
EduLAw members attended the session ‚Africa, Human rights, and Transformation – A conversation with Johan Froneman, Dhaya Pillay, and Toyin Falola’. Johan Froneman is a retired judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and extraordinary professor in the UFS Read More …
EduLAw members attended the lecture by professor Mwiza Jo Nkhata of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (Tanzania). The lecture was hosted by the Free State Centre for Human Rights. Professor Mwiza Jo Nkhata holds an lLLD and Read More …
The Free State Centre for Human Rights hosted a panel discussion on alternative dispute resolution in education. Currently, alternative dispute resolution mechanisms are not used in theSouth African education context. Not only is litigation costly and time-consuming, it is not Read More …
The South African Education Law Association (SAELA) hosted a series of webinars in September 2020. EduLAw member Manjola Lumani Zaçellari (dr.) participated as panel member in the webinar on ‘International Perspectives on schooling and Covid-19’. The panel was chaired by Read More …
From Monday 27 to Friday 31 July 2020, the human rights block week programme was conducted online with Mariette Reyneke in charge of the subject ‘Human Rights & Education’. Students discussed the right of access and equal opportunity in South Read More …
Objectives • To promote internationalisation and contribute to research on education law, policy and management through enhanced cooperation among experts from European and African Higher Education Institutions Expected benefits for HEIs • Incresed visibility of the EduLAw project in Africa Read More …
Desktop internet education has slowly taking over face-to-face learning and is actually in its turn being taken over by the mobile internet. Against this background, EU SA partners engage together in making tools and resources that drive digital learning in Read More …
The SAELA Annual international Education Law conference took place from 1-4 September 2019 in Port Elizabeth in South Africa. The conference theme was ‘The role of values and ethics in bringing about change in education’. The conference focused on the Read More …
In June 2018, a workshop took place with South African experts in Europe. This enabled partners to put priorities for further collaboration on the use of technology in education, from a policy perspective, teacher training perspective and community perspective.
A series of trainings on restorative practices and mediation took place at schools in February 2019. South African experts trained teachers how to negotiate a solution to conflicts to the satisfaction of all persons involved including the victim, the offender Read More …
In November 2018, a series of workshops took place with South African experts in the Flemish Community of Belgium. This enabled South African participants to put questions to and exchange views with Flemish experts on subjects associated with the use Read More …
In september 2018, a series of workshops took place with South African experts in Mpumalanga, Johannesburg, Bloemfontein and Cape Town. This enabled participants to put questions to and exchange views with experts on subjects associated with the use of technology Read More …
The interdisciplinary University of the Free State (Bloemfontein – South Africa) team with Mariette Reyneke (law), Lynette Jacobs (educational sciences), Erika Kruger (health and trauma therapist) and Roelf Reyneke (sociology) participated in the EduLAw workshop on (cyber) bullying prevention through Read More …
Mariette Reyneke, representatives of the EduLAw team, was networking with Christina Kafulo and her colleague to fulfilling the realization of the rights of the child in Africa. Christina Kafulo is Producer & IT Specialist at the Ministry of General Education Read More …
Around the turn of the year 2018, representatives of the EduLAw team were invited by South African faculties of law, education and sociology. They discussed how to create synergies with South African colleagues through sharing the EduLAw project outputs through Read More …
