The communication profession is being remade in real time. The qualifications meant to prepare students for it are not keeping up. Artificial intelligence can generate content in seconds. Algorithms increasingly determine what people see, believe and engage with. Organisations no longer control their own communication environments, because employees, consumers, activists, influencers and communities are all potential publishers. Reputation can be strengthened or destroyed online within hours. Data influences communication decisions, while misinformation, privacy, trust, ethics and authenticity have moved from…

BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) — As classrooms worldwide grapple with the transformative yet disruptive power of artificial intelligence (AI), a fundamental question hangs over the future of education: what is schooling for when machines can outthink humans? This question has recently taken centre stage in Beijing, where global academics, policymakers and frontline educators gathered to map out new models for teaching in the intelligent era. Amid the lively cross-border exchanges, one reality is clear: China’s large-scale experiments with AI-driven education…

The death of Professor Jason Arday, a British Sociology professor at Cambridge University, is more than the passing of a scholar. It is the loss of an intellectual force whose work challenged the comfortable assumptions through which knowledge about Africa, race, power, and the modern world has too often been produced. For Black scholars, the death of a scholar such as Arday is deeply personal. We understand that scholarship is not always an innocent enterprise. Knowledge has historically been used…

South Africa is not simply facing a teacher shortage. It is witnessing the erosion of the entire system of care that should surround a school, and teachers are being crushed beneath the weight of everything falling through the gaps. We are losing teachers, the social workers who support them and the non-governmental organisations to which they refer vulnerable children. These are not three separate crises. They are one crisis — and it is unfolding now. Much of the recent public…

A university should never cross borders simply to admire how another institution operates. The true power of benchmarking lies in what happens when we return home – armed not with photographs and impressions, but with sharper questions, fresh perspectives and the courage to challenge the way we have always done things. North-West University’s recent benchmarking visit to the University of Arizona in Tucson was exactly that kind of journey. It was more than a visit to another university; it was…

This involves exchanges of lecturers and students, joint research and educational programmes Iran and South Africa have agreed to expand cooperation between universities and scientific organisations. This was reported by IRNA, a partner of TV BRICS. A meeting between Iran’s Deputy Minister for Science, Research and Technology, Masoud Shams Bakhsh, and South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, took place in Bhubaneswar, India, during the 13th BRICS Education Ministers’ Meeting. Dube-Ncube outlined the opportunities offered by South African universities…

Why are knowledge and human capital becoming a key source of economic growth? How are BRICS countries shaping competing models of the knowledge economy? Read in the TV BRICS article India’s record: a gateway to a new reality On 28 April 2026, India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry published data showing that the country’s total exports of goods and services reached US$860.09 billion in 2025, marking a year-on-year increase of 4.22 per cent. Against this backdrop, the government set a…

Hundreds of learners in the West Rand continue to attend classes in ageing asbestos structures that pose serious health risks, despite years of promises by the Gauteng Provincial Government to eradicate dangerous school infrastructure. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has raised alarm over conditions at Randfontein Secondary School and Toekomsrus Primary School in Toekomsrus, accusing the provincial government of failing to protect learners and educators from exposure to hazardous asbestos materials. In a statement released on Monday, DA Shadow MEC for…

One of Ethiopia’s oldest universities joins TV BRICS International Media Network The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has joined the group of TV BRICS partners in the fields of science and higher education. One of the country’s oldest higher education institutions, University of Gondar, became the first Ethiopian university to launch cooperation with the International Media Network. The agreement on joint activities was signed by the university’s President, Asrat Atsedeweyn, and TV BRICS CEO Janna Tolstikova. The partnership will focus…

What other BRICS countries are actively integrating VR and AR into their education systems, and what challenges do they face? Read more in the TV BRICS article Virtual reality in Chinese schools One of the reasons behind China’s technological progress in virtual reality is that children are literally growing up in an environment filled with VR and AR tools. At school, young citizens of the People’s Republic of China already use cutting-edge technologies to visualise 3D animations in anatomy textbooks.…