There are many benefits and advantages to having a tertiary education, including better pay, improved career prospects, self-development and building your self-confidence.
Teenagers often enter HIV danger zones – high-risk factors that can cost them their lives. I set about identifying some of these high-risk factors with a group of grade 11 learners at West Ridge High School in Johannesburg.
They began life as Overvaal Resorts – government-owned and – run family holiday camps dotted across the country, aimed at providing affordable vacations for Mr and Mrs Average and their children.
There have been a number of calls recently to intensify local and community participation in school education. Teacher unions, education MECs, the ANC, committees of enquiry as well as research projects have expressed the need for greater opportunity for local structures and organisations to play a role in the strengthening and transformation of formal education at school level.
President Nelson Mandela is turning 90. There are many activities to celebrate him through learning:
Parliament wants to fire the existing SABC board, while the president and minister back the body.
Moipone Academy will host an awareness campaign about research activities in Antarctica at Khayalothando Hall in Tembisa during July.
Early childhood development or ECD is much talked, written and legislated about. But what is ECD about? Who does it affect? Who is expected to benefit? Why do so many people feel so passionately about it?
Most people do not like change, but the tough reality about teaching is that it is always changing.
Statistics show that most South Africans are severely under-funded when it comes to retirement savings. Such findings indicate that only 30% of retirement fund members think they will have enough money to live on when they retire, while more than 80% of members indicated that retirement savings are the most important need for them rather than short-term death and disability benefits.