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Silentium

Your Website Is Losing You Applications

Students browse on phones. Your site breaks on mobile. They leave and apply elsewhere. You never know it happened.

11 min read Silentium

The Students Who Complain Are Not the Problem

For every student who complains, dozens suffer in silence. The ones who speak up are doing you a favour.

10 min read Silentium

Your Admissions Process Is Your First Impression

Slow responses, confusing steps, unanswered emails. Students form opinions before they attend a single lecture.

9 min read Silentium

Enrolment Is a Marketing Problem Most Schools Ignore

Families are choosing schools. Other options are actively competing. You're in a market whether you engage with it or not.

12 min read Silentium

The Schools That Scout Build Stronger Classes

One school waits for applications. Another visits feeder schools, attends competitions, and offers strategic scholarships. Which builds better classes?

13 min read Silentium

Great Researchers Are Not Automatically Great Teachers

Brilliant researchers standing in front of students, failing to teach them. Research ability and teaching ability are completely different skills.

14 min read Silentium

The Gap Between What You Teach and What Employers Want

Graduates arrive with degrees but not capabilities. Employers retrain them. Universities keep teaching the same curriculum. Nobody's talking to each other.

15 min read Paperman

South African Education Stands at a Crossroads: Embrace Technology or Fall Behind

118,000 unfilled tech jobs. Schools must embrace technology or condemn learners to unemployment.

35 min read Paperman

Why AI tutors aren't trained for South African schools

ChatGPT sounds confident, but it wasn't trained on CAPS. That gap can mislead learners.

5 min read Paperman

Rural learners deserve the same tools as private school kids

Two learners, same exam, different resources. Technology can close the gap, if we build it right.

9 min read Paperman

Why South African learners are being left behind by global AI

ChatGPT wasn't built for CAPS. Learners study hard, use the wrong terms, and lose marks anyway.

7 min read Paperman

The curriculum changed and parents can't keep up

You want to help with homework, but CAPS isn't what you learned. That guilt you feel? Not your fault.

8 min read Paperman

Past papers aren't enough anymore

Past papers test understanding. They don't build it. Learners memorize patterns, feel ready, then freeze when the wording changes.

9 min read Paperman

What to do when half the class gets it and half doesn't

One teacher, forty learners, forty minutes. The maths doesn't work. You teach to the middle and watch both ends slip away.

8 min read Paperman

The 3pm Problem

The bell rings at 3pm. Your job is done. But learners still need help tonight, and you can't be there.

9 min read