Theatre helps teach valuable life skills THEATRE has always been a powerful educational medium. Realising this power, Arepp Educational Trust — a non-governmental organisation — has been using theatre for social education for years. Arepp is currently taking Look before You Leap, which is targeted at 15- to 18-year-olds and Don’t Think So!, aimed at […]
Trevor Manuel’s maths teacher helped develop his head for numbers Who was your favourite teacher? My favourite teacher was Peter Meyer — he actually only became my favourite in retrospect. I had much too difficult an adolescence to have really considered school or particular teachers favourite, but even then, there was a grudging admission that […]
Minister of Education Kader Asmal held a conference to assess the state of farm schools last month. IN an effort to find a solution to the problems of farm schools, Minister of Education Kader Asmal convened a national conference on farm schools in Midrand on May 13. ”The Schools Register of Needs survey conducted by […]
Eskom Expo displays young talents, but also exposes gap between schools, reports Rowan Callaghan Artificial intelligence: Dean Whyte, a 13-year-old from Mondeor Primary, with the robot which responds to light that he designed Yhis year’s finals of the annual Eskom Expo for Young Scientists, which were held at Pretoria University on October 6, showcased the […]
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has embarked on a drive to educate parents about their rights regarding the education of their children and to ensure that pupils spend more time in school. These issues were highlighted at the launch of the Parents’ Educational Rights programme in May. According to Gauteng MEC for Education, Ignatius […]
The Public Report on Basic Education (Probe) in India has highlighted some of the similarities between the problems in education in that country and those in South Africa – especially in the rural areas. The report, which looked at the state of primary education in the populous northern states of India, is unique in that […]
Joan Gerntholtz is passionate about sounds – and we’re not talking about kwaito or rhythm and blues. Her obsession is the perfection of phonics, the crucial building blocks that started us all on the road to reading bliss. Most of us can recall slowly stumbling through endless repetitions of b-a-t, c-a-t and m-a-t, but pay […]
stall of apples, nuts and other snacks had been looted by the hordes of learners that flooded Johannesburg’s streets. They were supporting a march organised by the Congress of South African Students. ‘We are not against the march. We want free education but the students must stop taking our stuff,” said Ndzamela. ‘They stole everything.” […]
The Dinaledi project, which aims to boost pupils’ performance in maths and science, is finally showing signs of progress, almost 10 months after its launch in June last year. Dinaledi (seSotho for “stars”) is being piloted in 102 selected schools in the country. “The dedicated schools were chosen from under-resourced, well-performing schools and those with […]