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/ 9 September 2008
Can the Eastern Cape’s new education minister, Mahlubandile Qwase, ease the province’s chronic educational woes before next year’s election, when he might be replaced?
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/ 4 September 2008
Can the Eastern Cape’s new Education Minister, Mahlubandile Qwase, ease the province’s chronic educational woes before next year’s election?
Education Minister Naledi Pandor tried this week to calm the nerves of parents, teachers and learners about the new matric exam to be written in two months’ time. Standard-grade exam papers will not be written this year. For the first time, all learners will write the same matric papers. The sharpest concerns about the new […]
Learners and teachers remain uncertain about their preparedness for the new national senior certificate. Teachers and representatives of all four teachers’ trade unions have sounded the alarm on this year’s school-leaving exam, saying they have not been adequately prepared to teach the new curriculum. The national senior certificate, to be written in about 190 days’ time, will replace ”matric”.
Schools ranked "the poorest of the poor" will be bolstered by an increase in support staff to free teachers from administrative duties so that they can spend more time on teaching and delivering quality Âeducation. The government has allocated just less than R1-billion that will provide for an extra 14 000 support staff posts.
The government has set aside R500-million to attract and reward qualified teachers for working in schools where few want to go: remote, poor and harsh rural and urban areas.
First it was the school pledge, then Education Minister Naledi Pandor drew fire for introducing a Bill of Responsibilities.
Lack of proper learning aids and resources to teach sciences is a serious problem for most schools in township areas. Most schools in these areas do not have laboratories and those that do lack the apparatus to carry out experiments and other practical activities.
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/ 21 February 2008
Education Minister Naledi Pandor wore the broadest smile among her counterparts on Wednesday as Finance Minister Trevor Manuel was once again in a generous mood towards her department. But some education analysts are sceptical about provinces’ capacity to deliver on disbursing the billions allocated to general education.
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/ 12 February 2008
Bophelo Mogashoa is a two-year-old girl living with her parents, Boitumelo and Jabu Kubheka, in Diepkloof Zone Five in Soweto. She looks like any other child her age, but there is one significant difference: She is deaf and her parents discovered her condition only by chance.