In a worse state than we think

SA's focus on the matric exam results obscures the fact that pupils in earlier grades lack fundamental skills.

Ministries fail to learn lesson

Government is sweeping under the carpet the core reasons for dysfunctional schooling.

Together step by step

Rebuilding education will have to be incremental and all will have to help.

Vavi: Apartheid to blame for education system

Cosatu's Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday blamed apartheid for the current state of the education system, despite 16 years under a new democratic regime.

Education heads need finance 101

More than half of South Africa's provincial education departments are in an administrative and financial mess.

Honey, I shrunk the classroom

The incoming government has promised to cut class sizes in schools. Cornia Pretorius and Primarashni Gower report.

Union: Education system a disaster

The national education system is a "disaster", the Afrikaans teachers' union told the African National Congress recently.

State teachers go digital

The education department is to embark on an ambitious plan to roll out laptop computers to teachers.

School crisis: National steps in

The National Department of Education is to step into the Eastern Cape's endlessly crisis-ridden school system.

Matric results lay bare inequalities

The uneven matric results show that despite a curriculum change, the SA education system is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era.

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