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  A grim reality the world has had to face in the modern age is the fact that the planet’s waterways are overwhelmingly polluted. Much of it is unfortunately thanks to the technologies and products engineered in the past.   Humans need to put their waste somewhere; most of the...Read More

The breakthroughs in the biomedical engineering industry are staggering. For instance, the world has moved closer to a system of wearable diagnostic tools that are designed to continually monitor human health – consider the Fitbit for instance.  And ideas that had previously been designated to the realm of science fiction...Read More

 It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster.   (The Chernobyl Disaster 2015).   The catastrophic Chernobyl disaster occurred on 26 April, 1986. Chernobyl, the nuclear power plant in Ukraine, is responsible for thousands of deaths, including large numbers of people suffering from premature cancers linked to exposure to the deadly...Read More

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has announced that all construction projects for new coal power plants will be cancelled, effective immediately. Instead, the NEA is investing $361 billion into expanding renewable energy technologies in an effort to reduce the crippling smog levels in many cities in China. The number of...Read More

 “The future wars will be fought over water.”   Are we heading for a future where those who have the cleanest and most abundant water will be the most prosperous? As it stands, to discern which countries are first world and which are third the cleanliness of drinking water is...Read More

The breakthroughs in the biomedical engineering industry were staggering in 2016. The world moved closer toward wearable systems that could continually monitor human health, and even produced studies for ingestible robots, designed to be powered by human stomach acid.     With biomedical engineering technologies becoming more apt at generating...Read More

What are they and can they provide the solution to the ‘skill gap’ conundrum? One can earn a micro-credential in a specific, targeted skill or acquire a number of them – part of a broader, inclusive skill set. Udacity, one of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers refer to...Read More

      The Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) is very proud to present a glimpse into the quite remarkable work being undertaken by our students completing the Master of Engineering in Industrial Automation.   These students, who are studying alongside their work in industry, are deep into the research...Read More

Is the world finally ready to embrace the significance of technical and vocational skills and in doing so bump higher education qualifications off their pedestals and out of their ivory towers?   The government of the United Kingdom is certainly addressing this traditional imbalance.   They are introducing a new...Read More

In 2013, Nicolene Murdoch, the executive director for teaching and quality at Monash South Africa - a higher education institution - said that historically only 15 to 20% of South African students at universities end up graduating.   More recently, in 2015, the Council of Higher Education calculated the dropout...Read More