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/ 22 November 2005
Parktown Girls’ High School, north of Johannesburg, this month says goodbye to five out-of-the-ordinary Grade 12s. The school enrolled five deaf learners in 2001, but has been forced to decline any further applications from disabled learners because the cost of teaching them is prohibitive.
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/ 11 November 2005
In the face of widespread poverty in rural Mpumalanga, some schools serve as the glue in an environment where family units are disintegrating. They provide much-needed comfort and sustenance to orphans and children with poverty-stricken parents.
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/ 10 November 2005
Poorly trained mathematics and science teachers in Sekhukhune district, Limpopo, have something to count on to improve their skills: a mathematics and science project run by St Marks College Trust, an Anglican education facility in Jane Furse.
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/ 1 November 2005
Teachers from across the country descended on Hilton College in Pietermaritzburg last month for Intel’s professional teacher-development conference on information and communication technology. The theme of the conference was Innovation in Education and computer and education experts spoke on how best to integrate ICT into the curriculum.
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/ 1 November 2005
The National Business Initiative and petroleum outfit Engen have joined hands to launch an innovative programme aimed at providing ”professional development” to mathematics and science teachers. Called Education Quality Improvement Partnerships, the programme is a timely boost to the government’s efforts to address the problem of poorly qualified maths and science teachers.
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/ 11 October 2005
"I love teaching and I do not think I can swap it for any profession, however well it pays," says Mavis Shongwe. After a career in teaching spanning 30 years, she is currently deputy principal at Emmangweni Primary School in Tembisa in Gauteng, where she has been teaching since 1979.
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/ 14 September 2005
International terrorism carried out in cities around the world in the name of Allah is creating a dangerous perception of Muslims as bloodthirsty criminals.
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/ 14 September 2005
The rituals and religious traditions of weddings may differ from culture to culture, but the world over they’re essentially about the same thing: uniting not only a man and a woman, but their families as well.
Teacher unions are threatening to declare a dispute, as disagreements with the Department of Education (DoE) over the Integrated Quality Management System (IQMS) continue. The DoE is being accused by the unions of attempting to act outside of the IQMS collective agreement.
Nineteen of the state-employed educators involved in last year’s Mpumalanga matric cheating scandal were found guilty of misconduct earlier this month. The chairperson of the disciplinary committee, Walter Kutumela, says each was fined R3 000 and issued with a written warning.