Recent research shows that up to 90% of cancers are caused by environmental factors, according to the Cancer Association of South Africa (Cansa), which will focus on environmental awareness during Cancer Prevention Week from August 1 to 7.
A combination of innovative personal teaching styles and the use of multimedia technology is a good recipe for "enhancing the creative potential of young learners as they prepare for the challenges ahead".
A learner from Dinwiddie High in Germiston was named the Gauteng winner in a national poetry campaign to oppose racism and xenophobia.
Every time one reads an article about outcomes-based education (OBE), one gets the feeling that it will do the country no good; or that its implementation has failed dismally.
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:
Moipone Academy will host an awareness campaign about research activities in Antarctica at Khayalothando Hall in Tembisa during July.