2025 brings a significant shift in the education system, with the Coding and Robotics curriculum for Grades R to 9, gazetted in June 2024, now entering classrooms. It presents opportunities for skills ...

Some articles in the media over the past few weeks have made concerning statements about the implementation of the coding and robotics curriculums not being mandatory in “the foreseeable future”. The ...

Despite growing global emphasis on digital skills, South Africa’s Department of Basic Education has confirmed that Coding and Robotics will not become compulsory subjects in the near future. Instead, ...

A multi-stakeholder collaboration between the Department of Basic Education (DBE), MTN SA Foundation and Sifiso EdTech has resulted in the launch of a coding and robotics centre at Letsibogo Girls ...

In theory, the idea of preparing kids for the digital world by teaching them to code using a robot that follows instructions is a pretty great one. It’s also one that entrepreneur and roboticist ...

Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga has called for comments to amend the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) to make provision for coding and robotics at South African schools. In a ...

In 2017, Apple CEO Tim Cook told U.S. President Trump that “coding should be a requirement in every public school. We have a huge deficit in the skills that we need today versus the skills that are ...

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is resuming SA’s coding and robotics curriculum pilot, which it halted due to the disruption in learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. So said DBE ...

Many educators have welcomed the news that the basic education department has gazetted changes to the national curriculum, adding coding and robotics as an additional subject to school curricula for ...

The Department of Basic Education has officially announced the addition of Coding and Robotics to the school curricula in South Africa. Many have questioned whether under-resourced schools will be ...