The Gauteng education department appears to be battling with the demand for more school classrooms caused by high migration rates into the province.
As school admission issues continue to plague Thembelihle pupils, activists battle to place students three weeks after schools have reopened.
School leavers still see universities as their first choice, above FET colleges, despite attempts by government to try to persuade them otherwise.
Nearly 200 hopeful applicants have been turned away from the Tshwane University of Technology’s (TUT) Pretoria campus after queuing for hours.
Matric results for 2012 are looking up but they have not told us enough about the deep social inequalities experienced by pupils across the country.
Teacher unions have told the Mail & Guardian they will oppose the return of school inspectors, as proposed by President Jacob Zuma.
As the ANC goes to its elective conference in Mangaung, we look at the resolutions made at the 2007 Polokwane conference. What have they achieved?
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has indicated that knives would soon be out for department of basic education’s Bobby Soobrayan.
Pupils in the country’s rural schools remain disadvantaged by absent resources, and that is why they performed worse than their urban counterparts.
A former unionist says claims were fabricated to protect Vaal techinkon’s vice-chancellor.