Edwin Naidu describes how the colleges will now become part of universities and technikons Teacher training is set for major change when 25 colleges of education are incorporated into the tertiary system later this month. The changes, aimed at streamlining teacher-training and bringing it under the higher education umbrella, come amid concern over dwindling student […]
If history is the future of our past, one wonders how the textbooks of tomorrow will reflect the government and politics of 2001. Who will write our history? Who will claim ownership of it? Too many questions, the answers to which will become available only to our children. The learners of tomorrow will get the […]
Six years after apartheid was officially laid to rest – at least in the statute books – the country’s class of 2000 matriculants have finally showed some signs of progress. Boasting a pass rate that had gone up by 9%, Minister of Education Kader Asmal was pleased at the 57,9%, success rate compared to 48,9% […]
The Child Rights Media Code aims to make the shapers of public opinion more responsible for the powerful images they present to children, writes Edwin Naidu Would you allow your child to listen to Eminem, the foul-mouthed rapper who sings about performing disgusting acts with his mother and his girlfriend? The answer is as irrelevant […]
Playing with friends, reading, doing homework and performing community service may rank among the responses, but the most accurate answer is that they’re probably watching television. The lure of the box occupies many young minds, but how much of what they’re viewing is worthwhile? A recent global study on children and media violence by Unesco […]
When parents send their children to schools, they are putting them under the direct stewardship of the principal and his team of educators. Parents, many of whom have to run the home and also be breadwinners, expect their children to be in good hands while at school. Therefore, it is alarming to find that there […]
Children or adults going on the rampage firing bullets at learners in the United States has been commonplace over the past few years. Shootings involving pupils in the United Kingdom has repeatedly made headlines or the news on television and radio, among the most tragic being the massacre at Dunblane in Scotland when scores were […]
Edwin Naidu spoke to Minister of Education Kader Asmal, about how his plans have been shaping up It is not difficult to notice why Kader Asmal was nicknamed ‘The Bee†during his schooldays. He swarms around, buzzing with enthusiasm, moving swiftly from one idea to the next, sometimes not completing his train of thought. In […]