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View the latest dataset available from our open data portal.

Lynn Woolfrey was invited to present on our data service at the prestigious 50th Anniversary Conference of the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) in Bergen, Norway in June.

The third one-week residential course will be held at the University of Cape Town from 4 to 8 May 2026. This upcoming one-week residential course focuses on maximising the impact of foundational learning data.

Hearts on fire and heads on ice: SALDRU’s first and next 50 years by Professor Murray Leibbrandt. Join the hybrid lecture in memory of SALDRU's founding director, 10 December 2025.

Building Capacity to Implement EGRA & EGMA Digitally. AFLEARN and DataFirst are pleased to offer a practical, hands-on training in SurveyCTO focused specifically on Early Grade Assessments (EGAs), 19 to 23 January 2026

View the latest dataset available from our open data portal: PALMS, PASES, the Department of Basic Education’s Learner Unit Record Information and Tracking System (LURITS), and UCT's Student Admissions Data 2006-2025

DataFirst, in partnership with the SA-TIED programme, invites you to the launch of two key datasets — PALMS v4 and PASES v1 — enhancing South Africa’s evidence base on labour and socio-economic development.

International Data Week brings together data scientists and other stakeholders to exchange ideas and expertise on data use for the good of science and society.