The Beijing Olympics are in August. In the gymnastic events the athletes will be aiming for "perfect scores" – full marks from every judge. In a school situation it’s slightly tougher to get a perfect score for communication from all the stakeholders.
Love, death and money are some of the reasons first-year students across the globe drop out — not to mention the academic hardships they often encounter.
The intricacies of coping at varsity — the first-year experience — are the focus of international study by the higher education sector.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) has launched a portal on higher education institutions across the globe to support students who need reliable and fresh information about studying abroad. This portal offers online information about institutions sanctioned by competent authorities in participating countries.
The department of education and unions signed an occupation-specific dispensation (OSD) last month that provides for increases for teachers backdated to January. the Teacher asked Firoz Patel, Deputy Director General of systems, planning and monitoring in the national department of education, to provide more detail.
The national and provincial departments of education have been delivering special "packages" to hundreds of schools.
The University of Johannesburg plans to build a teaching and training hotel on its Auckland Park Bunting road campus to tackle the growing need for tourism and hospitality managers. The project will be an extension of its school of tourism and hospitality, which opened a few years ago thanks to a massive capital injection by business tycoon Sol Kerzner.
Most of the fuel we use today to run our cars and to generate power, such as electricity, comes from fossil fuels. This is the name given to coal, petroleum (or crude oil) and natural gas which are extracted from the rocks of the Earth’s crust.
The Education Laws Amendment Bill, passed by Parliament at the end of last year, opens the door for schools to start testing learners for drugs. And, with drug addiction and drug-related violence on the increase in South Africa and younger children being targeted by drug dealers, it has been greeted by many parents and educators as a welcome move by government to tackle a harrowing problem at grassroots level.
Some don’t, some do, some divide by two. A child’s riddle?
As a responsible and financially independent adult, the ability to live within your means is one of the greatest life-skills you can have. Most salary-earners, however, are often left without cash in their bank accounts long before month-end because of temptation, a lack of financial discipline and no knowledge of budgets.