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SAARMSTE Research School applicants — this is your nudge 🤏🏽

Submitting your application doesn’t secure your spot…
✨ Registration does!

With limited spaces and overwhelming interest, you don’t want to miss out.
Don’t leave your opportunity hanging — take a minute today to complete your registration and lock in your place.

🚀 We’re excited to have you join us!

📢 Call for Papers: SAARMSTE Conference 2027

The 35th SAARMSTE Conference will be hosted in Lusaka, Zambia, from 18–20 January 2027, with Mukuba University and the University of Zambia serving as co-hosts. The conference will be followed by a back-to-back Writing Clinic.

The conference theme, Harnessing Local Contexts for Effective STEM Education to Drive Sustainable Development, invites contributions that engage critically with context-responsive STEM education across diverse settings.

Submissions are welcomed in multiple formats, including long papers, short papers, snapshots, posters, and symposia. This provides an opportunity to contribute to ongoing scholarly conversations within the SAARMSTE community.

Further details, including submission guidelines, are available in the First Announcement and Call for Papers:
https://www.saarmste.org/conference/

Colleagues are encouraged to consider submissions that advance research and practice in science, mathematics, and technology education.

We look forward to engaging with this work in Lusaka.

Conference – SAARMSTE The annual Post-Conference Writing Clinic is aimed at developing draft manuscripts and/or short papers into articles for journal submission.

We’ve loved seeing the incredible response to the Saarmste Research School 🙌

If you’ve already applied — this is your reminder that your journey isn’t complete just yet.

✨ Registration is what secures your place.

With so many strong applications received, we’d hate for you to miss out.
Take a moment today to complete your registration and lock in your spot.

Don’t leave it to chance — secure your place now.

SAARMSTE community and the broader STEM education research network

⏳ Final call for applications

The 24th Annual SAARMSTE Research School is closing soon. This is the last opportunity to secure a place in this focused research development space.

Hosted by the Wits School of Education
📍 Venue: Kopanong Hotel & Conference Centre
💻 Hybrid format: In-person and virtual attendance options available
📅 Dates: 29 June – 2 July 2026

PhD candidates and ECRs are encouraged to apply and engage with a community advancing research in STEM education

📅 Application deadline: 18 April 2026

Save the date for the International Conference on STE*M Education, to be held from 21 to 23 September 2026 at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The conference invites scholars, teacher educators, and practitioners to engage with the theme of reimagining STEM education towards more inclusive and contextually responsive futures.

📣 SAARMSTE Community – You’re Invited!
We warmly invite you, our fellow mathematics, science and technology educators and researchers, to apply for the 24th Annual Research School!
📅 29 June – 2 July 2026
🏛️ Hybrid (Online & In-person)
📍 Kopanong Hotel & Conference Centre
🧑‍🏫 Hosted by Wits School of Education
💰 Registration Fees
• In-person room sharing: R4 900
• In-person single room: R6 500
• Virtual attendance only: R2 000
⏰ Deadline to apply: 18 April 2026
This is your chance to connect, collaborate and grow with the SAARMSTE community!
✅ Apply now → https://www.saarmste.org/research-school/
Enquiries: [email protected]
Full flyer attached below 👇

📢 Call for Papers

A Special Issue of the African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (AJRMSTE) invites 500-word abstracts for the theme “Supporting learning and teaching of accurate, flexible and efficient working with early number calculation across Africa.”

The issue welcomes empirical, theoretical and review papers focused on early number calculation in African contexts.

🗓 Abstract deadline: 30 April 2026
🗓 Full paper deadline: 30 October 2026
📅 Publication: 2027

Guest editors: Hamsa Venkat, Mellony Graven, Lawan Abdulhamid and Tarryn Lovemore.

Submit abstracts to: [email protected] and [email protected]

The SAARMSTE community mourns the passing of Dr Mamohato Makhechane (03 December 1983 – 19 February 2026), a SAARMSTE Fellow and a deeply respected scholar in science and mathematics education. Her dedication to scholarship, mentorship, and the advancement of science education touched many lives across our community.

We extend our sincere condolences to her family, friends, colleagues, and students during this difficult time.

Colleagues and friends are warmly invited to join a hybrid memorial service celebrating her life and legacy.

📅 Thursday, 12 March 2026
⏰ 13:00 – 14:00

💻 Online: Zoom (click to join)
https://shorturl.at/8oqZz

📍 In-person: SEDO Labs, Wozani Building, WSoE

Let us come together to honour and remember Dr Makhechane’s remarkable contribution to our community.

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