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Using stand-alone AI chatbot coaches in organisational coaching is becoming a reality promising to democratise, scale and enhance human coaching. However there is limited research on the hybrid use of human and AI coaching. Using the working alliance theory this paper reports on the perceptions of coaches and clients on the use of chatbot-assisted human coaching. In two qualitative studies coaches (study 1) and clients (study 2) were exposed to an AI chatbot coach assistant after which interviews were conducted and data analysed using thematic analysis. Themes were classified using working alliance theory. Coaches were concerned about the chatbot's potential negative interference in the coach-client relationship. Clients on the other hand described a more synergetic, psychologically safe experience provided the chatbot is endorsed by the human coach. Coaches and clients thought the chatbot was useful for goal tracking, accountability and convenience and stressed as a prerequisite the importance of the chatbot being flexible, reliable and humane. This study provides important initial insights into the under-researched, new frontier of human-AI collaboration in organisational coaching, highlighting the pivotal role of the coach's attitude towards this technology. This knowledge can help to operationalise the immense potential benefits of AI into organisational coaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twenty years after democracy, the legacy of apartheid and hitherto unmet challenges of resourcing and teacher development are reflected in a severely inequitable and underperforming education system. This paper focuses on second language writing in the middle years of schooling when 80% of learners face a double challenge: to move from "common sense" discourses to the more abstract, specialised discourses of school subjects and, simultaneously, to a new language of learning, in this case English. It describes an intervention using a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) genre-based pedagogy involving 72 learners and two teachers in a low socio-economic neighbourhood of Cape Town. Using an SFL analytical framework, we analyse learners' development in the information report genre. All learners in the intervention group made substantial gains in control of staging, lexis, and key linguistic features. We argue that the scaffolding provided by SFL genre-based pedagogies together with their explicit focus on textual and linguistic features offer a means of significantly enhancing epistemic access to the specialised language of school subjects, particularly for additional language learners. Findings have implications for language-in-education policy, teacher education, curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in multilingual classrooms.

Apartheid in South Africa left a legacy of inequality in every sphere – political, social and economic. The first democratically elected government in 1994 introduced a Black Economic Empowerment (hereafter BEE) strategy to rectify these inequalities. This strategy was accompanied by a BEE Act and the BEE Codes of Good Practice. South African companies subscribed to the BEE strategy for various reasons. A salient fact in all BEE transactions is a discount element presented to the previously disadvantaged investor. This discount element raises the question of whether donations tax arises on these transactions. At first glance, the answer appears straightforward in that no donations tax should arise as this would hinder government's policy objective of redressing the inequalities of the past. However, there is more to this issue. The purpose of the study on which this article is based was to analyse the overwhelmingly complex BEE structures that have been implemented and to determine the donations tax implications at the various transactional levels. The contribution of this study is that it revealed that tax commentators have taken a simplistic approach to answering the question and that the donations tax implications on the discount element are contentious and unclear. The authors seek to rectify this uncertainty through legislative amendment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]