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.
Severe food insecurity afflicts at least 40% of people in Southern Africa, and rural communities are especially vulnerable.
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/ 24 October 2008
Next week a new form of matric exam commences – and tensions among learners, teachers and parents were heightened by recent blunders around trial maths papers. This has left many wondering whether the department of education will deliver a credible final exam. Penny Vinjevold, deputy director general for further education and training, set out to put the Teacher’s mind at rest.