Anxiety, fear and excitement are building up as runners prepare for the 85th anniversary of the Comrades Marathon, taking place on Sunday.
University academics were left out in the cold in last week’s Budget — unlike with teachers and vocational education lecturers.
Universities complain that the national exam is no longer a benchmark for admission.
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/ 4 December 2009
Grade three and six national assessment results show how the education system is falling short.
The choice of Mugwena Maluleke as the new general secretary of Sadtu is widely interpreted as a move to redeem the union’s battered credibility.
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/ 17 September 2009
As student anger erupted at Wits over fee increases, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande refused to be drawn on whether he will pump up subsidies
Teachers unions are mounting more pressure on the department of education (DoE) to sign off collective agreement number four of the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD), with South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) giving them a deadline for this Friday.
The government is moving to cap fees at public schools at R2 000 a year and to compensate schools that grant fee exemptions.
More than half of South Africa’s provincial education departments are in an administrative and financial mess.
”Boet, are you strong enough”, ”do you have a strong character”, ”have you been running races”, ”which was the last race you ran?”