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In the same way field trips transform textbook topics into experiences of true value for learners, international teacher-exchange programmes have the power to add zing to classroom practice.
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/ 12 October 2005
A government drive to standardise HIV/Aids policies in schools over the past three years has highlighted the need for schools to formalise their strategies to tackle the epidemic and its effects.
In the same way that Neil Armstrong’s famous moon walk marked the 20th century in history, biotechnology will no doubt leave its signature on the 21st. Broadly speaking, biotechnology is the industrial use of living organisms or biological processes. Examples of biotechnology products are antibiotics and techniques such as those used in waste recycling.
News about the London bombings break at the same time J-Lo’s latest tantrum makes world headlines — welcome to the global village, courtesy of 24-hour media networks. Globalisation and the tools of 21st-century communication have turned journalism into a new animal and present different opportunities for working journalists.
It has been long time coming — but even now that it is here, the real work of implementing career-path mapping and incentive schemes for teachers is only just beginning. The R6,9-billion that was recently allocated for teachers’ salaries will be spent over three years. Of this, R2,7-billion will be used to settle backlogs in salary payments.
Charné Nel* speaks about her career in law the same way some people speak about chocolate – she luuuurvs it!
For 48 years Boys Town has worked to stamp out a reputation for itself as one of the country’s landmark institutions for the residential care for boys. In February, the Alpha Family Home for Girls opened its doors in Claremont, Cape Town, to its first intake of five girls. The home can now accommodate 10 girls.
Entrepreneurship studies and courses may seem to some like a theoretical straitjacket for creative business ideas. But a solid business background can give wings to ideas and ensure that practical hurdles in the life of new, growing and established businesses are more easily overcome.
They’ve been called nerds and goody-two-shoes, but they shrug off these snide remarks and make positive changes instead. They’re the junior city councillors who act as youth representatives in major cities across the country and are required to give of their free time for a one-year term. Grant Gardner of St Davids Marist Inanda, Kelly […]
The ability to read and write may be the traditional understanding of literacy, but new definitions are straining the limits of this narrow box. One of the agitators for change is Brian Street, professor of language in education from King’s College London in the United Kingdom. For Street, literacy is about the way we process […]