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/ 11 November 2011
Wits’ new SRC president is one of 16 suspended for a year after disrupting classes during protest action.
Ignorance of the law, antagonistic authorities and overcrowding were cited as major obstacles at an education rights for refugees workshop.
Wits University continues to practise apartheid-style segregation and treatment of workers, claims a hard-hitting report.
The increase in part-time matric students is definitely not an attempt to massage annual matric pass rates, the department of basic education insists.
Sadtu says it will withdraw from key Mpumalanga
forums if its demands are not met.
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/ 30 September 2011
Teachers sometimes feel powerless to guide their pupils through morally intricate situations such as the 2008 xenophobic attacks.
Parliament wants the department of basic education to explain the sudden spike in part-time candidates writing the final exam.
A teachers’ union now says it ‘will allow’ a court hearing of the principal accused of assault.
Local jazz musician, Simphiwe Dana, has set up an alternative funding mechanism for black schools.
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/ 8 September 2011
The Centre for Development and Enterprise has challenged the public education sector to form a social movement to improve education in South Africa.