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Charlotte D Blignaut, Shirley Lloyd, Jill Lithgow and Gershom Aitchison

Join Charlotte D Blignaut as she leads a round table panel discussion at the 2019 EduTech conference in Sandton with Shirley Lloyd, a recently retired Director from the NQF Directorate for the Department of Higher Education, Jill Lithgow, the Educations Solutions lead for Johnson and Johnson in South Africa, and Gershom Aitchison, co-founder and headmaster of Education Incorporated, a boutique school in Fourways.
19 Oct 2019 English South Africa Education · Kids & Family

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