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Advancing knowledge NPC preparing STEM education for the 4th industrial revolution

Advancing Knowledge NPC (AK NPC) has delivered a number of award-winning projects, programmes and SACE endorsed short courses in STEM education

  • Partner Content
4 min read
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Advancing Knowledge NPC 2024 Science Club Competition in the Cape winelands 

Spectacular science experiments, hair-raising demonstrations and awe-inspiring science shows

  • Professor Shaheed Hartley
4 min read
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AK NPC: Training science club practitioners at West Coast schools

To date 12 brand new Science Teaching and Learning Centres have been built at five primary and seven secondary West Coast schools

  • Professor Shaheed Hartley
7 min read
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Three new Science Teaching & Learning Centres open to support STEM education at Cape Town schools

More than 100 TLCs have been constructed at Western Cape schools since 2011

  • Professor Shaheed Hartley
3 min read
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Advancing Knowledge NPC’s inquiry-based science education training for InterSen (grades 4-7) Natural Science teachers

The first step is walking teachers through the inquiry-based approach to teaching science and improving their pedagogic skills and content knowledge

  • Professor Shaheed Hartley
7 min read
Keenan Rasmus, Gillian O’Reilly, Pieter Kirsten (Science Subject Advisors), Professor Shaheed Hartley (Head: AK NPC), Rousseau Mercuur (ECKED Curriculum Head), Dr Gillian Arendse (iThemba Labs).
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Science empowerment in Eden and Central Karoo Education District of the Western Cape

Reinvigorating hands-on practical and experimental work by making use of elementary everyday products to teach chemistry, physics, life sciences and astronomy

  • Professor Shaheed Hartley
5 min read