Teachers

For Mpho Adelaide Tsikwana, education is not confined to the classroom — it is a catalyst for unlocking opportunity, building confidence and equipping young people to shape their…

Embracing new ways can be overwhelming for in-service teachers if adequate training and support are not provided

Fifty percent of the country’s teachers may leave the profession in 10 years, threatening education quality and rural staffing

Teachers, especially those in schools where violence, drugs and gangsterism are a daily reality, need to become ‘trauma informed’

Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) recently held the first of four professional development sessions planned for 2025 directed at intersen (grades 4-7) and senior…

Despite obstacles faced by the learners, their hard work resulted in an 81.4% grade 12 pass rate

Learners should be taught in their home language and they need textbooks. Teachers must be part of curriculum reforms and know how to use teaching guides.

Arts education is critical, because it has the capacity to liberate learners from economic, social and political forces. What’s needed is funding, training and political will

One of their biggest challenges is getting parents to support ECD practitioners and day mothers and get more involved in their children’s development

The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the country’s schools closing and teachers being left without jobs

‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape

The positive effect on the children has spilled over into the local community and improved social cohesion

People at early childhood development are still fighting to get Covid-19 vaccinations

Police minister Bheki Cele and national commissioner Khehla Sitole receive their Covid-19 vaccines as inoculation starts for law enforcement

The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to…