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?”
As if the gruelling Two Oceans Marathon wasn’t enough…now I’ve gone and done it: I’m about to run my first Comrades Marathon. What possessed me?
SADTU in Gauteng Central is defying calls by education minister Naledi Pandor and ANC to refrain from holding political meetings during school hours.
The National Department of Education is to step into the Eastern Cape’s endlessly crisis-ridden school system.
The department of education will soon be able to track every learner in South Africa throughout his or her schooling. This will allow it to understand better when and why children drop out and how they progress from year to year.
About 22 000 more matric candidates achieved university entrance in 2008 than in the previous year, but many cannot be absorbed into an overtaxed tertiary education system.
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/ 2 December 2008
The hawksbill turtle was one of the hottest attractions at Hong Kong’s Asia World Expo Centre (AWE) which, a week ago, resembled a Sunday marketplace.