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Distance Education Institutions in Africa

The African Virtual University (AVU) is a first-of-its-kind interactive-instructional telecommunications network established to serve the countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The objective of the AVU is to build capacity and support economic development by leveraging the power of modern telecommunications technology to provide world-class quality education and training programs to students and professionals in sub-Saharan Africa.

Africa - South Africa - Institutions - List of institutions in South Africa included in the International Centre for Distance Learning (ICDL) Database.

Africa Growth Network - a distance learning organization that delivers training and education programs via satellite.

Allenby In-Home Study (SA) - has developed a dynamic concept of open-learning and learner-centered distance education. This principle of "lifelong learning" enables students to build qualifications on a "credit for credit" basis.

Careerwise - SA Distance Education Institutions - Addresses of Distance Education Institutions in South Africa

College of Education for Further Training, Roggebaai, South Africa - offers the following programmes via distance learning: the Diploma in Education for the Junior Primary School/Senior Primary School, and the Higher Diploma in Education for the Junior Primary School/Senior Primary School.

Department of Adult and Community Education - University of Natal, South Africa - produces a weekly educational newspaper - Learn with Echo - that attempts to use the home as the main arena of learning for basic adult education at a distance and at a mass-scale. The Centre also offers a Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Education via distance learning.

Distance education in developing countries - Research on distance education in developing countries, with the Institute of Distance Education in Swaziland, Southern Africa, as an example

Institute of Distance Education - The Home Page of the Institute of Distance Education in Swaziland, with details of staff and programmes, together with useful links for researchers, teachers and students of distance education

INTEC College - Distance Education institution located in Cape Town offering: Computer, Technical, Accounting, Management, Vocational, Language, Professional, Institute, and Secretarial Courses.

Lyceum College, South Africa - offers correspondence courses in a wide range of subjects at a variety of levels including: Standard 5, 8, 10; Certificates and Diplomas from the Institute of Vocational Studies; Diplomas or Certificates in Agriculture, Security, Licensing, etc.

m-powa Web Based Training - m-powa (South Africa) offers a wide range of services in the Web Based Training environment.

Potchefstroom University - accessible, affordable and quality higher education within the reach of every student in South Africa, through its Telematic Learning Systems.

South African Local Support Office for USQ - The University of Southern Queensland (USQ, Australia) offers through this office courses in all six of their faculties, namely Arts, Business, Commerce, Education, Science, Engineering and Surveying.

Technikon SA - Technikon SA is a distance education and open learning institution within a flexible learning higher education system in South Africa.

Technisa - the only technical college in South Africa to offer tuition by distance education. Technisa cover the whole spectrum - from Adult basic Education and Training, through secondary, tertiary and teacher training, as well as vocational education and training.

Tuis - a website for farm management, financial recordkeeping and income tax on a basis of distance education in agriculture, mainly for farmers in South Africa

University of South Africa (UNISA) - the largest university in South Africa and one of the largest distance education institutions in the world. UNISA offers internationally recognised certificate, diploma and degree courses up to doctoral level.

Vista University Distance Education Campus (SA) - a multi-campus, mixed-mode university providing tertiary education at seven contact campuses based in major black urban areas and correspondence study through a Distance Education Campus based in Pretoria.
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