On the surface, the matrics class of 2000 failed to disappoint when compared to the downward trend of recent years. However, beyond the results razzmatazz is the reality that at least another 500 000 adults have been unleashed into the real world, away from the innocent confines of the – sometimes carefree — classroom. Of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]