An iPad app with 600 textbooks in six South African languages has been launched and the classes featuring it have proved to be a hit with pupils.
Hoerskool Fochville and the education department clash over pupils who can’t be taught in Afrikaans.
The SA Education and Environment Project’s bridging year programme has given a few matrics the chance to succeed in their first year of varsity.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has announced the establishment of a permanent body to oversee transformation at universities.
The Rivonia school admissions saga might have been avoided if Minister Angie Motshekga had published norms and standards for school capacity.
Storm clouds loom over basic education’s "inadequate" standards and unmet deadlines, writes Victoria John.
The legacy of three court orders, a media furore, and pupils who went without textbooks last year appears to be holding strong – on Twitter.
Long-awaited draft school infrastructure standards are a shocking disappointment, educationists say.
Victoria John reported on an infamous Mauritius institution in 2009. When a new branch opened in Johannesburg, she took another look.
"If these results were true, it would mean we have improved more in a single year than Colombia did in 12 years from 1995 to 2007," experts said.