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Nearly 36 000 young Mozambicans have signed up for SMS-based health counselling but will the new technology curb HIV infections?
There’s been a lot for me to reflect on in the last while. It’s not just that it’s the beginning of another year and so a time for new resolutions and all that. It’s also because…
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) will consider issuing the national Department of Education (DoE) with a subpoena if it does not present the commission with a…
A two-year pilot project was launched last month to tackle the high rate of HIV and Aids among South Africas teachers.
Voices of opposition are mounting to some of the changes to education laws proposed by the Department of Education (DoE). The Education Laws Amendment Bill, which was presented…
<i>The teacher</i> spoke to the new Director General of Education, Duncan Hindle, about his life in education so far. Hindle started teaching in 1979 at Maritzburg College, where…
The next best thing to travelling to other countries is meeting foreigners in your own. So, even before the International Confederation of Principals (ICP) convention began…
Heated words are flying between the Department of Education and teacher unions as they blame each other for the faltering process of teacher appraisals. The snail’s pace at which…
‘Half-naaitjies [little bastards].” This is one of the stinging labels that children of farm labourers in South Africa have endured for generations. Children like these have, for…
Why is it that the public gets so silly and hysterical when the issue of language in education is raised? Suddenly there’s an unholy tizz played out in the media, shrieks of…
If you asked someone to list 10 words they associate with South Africa, "crime" would almost certainly be among them. With 35 000 young people under the age of 21 currently…
I have a question for all teachers and principals: do you feel free to speak to the media? Or do you find yourselves "censored" — either because your district manager tells you…
LIKE a bolt out of the blue, what was once a stable, happening school in the affluent area of Bryanston in Gauteng suddenly became a hotbed of racial violence and controversy. Or…
The Constitutional Court upholds the ban against corporal punishment THERE’S no more getting around it: corporal punishment has no more place in our schools, and educators are…
The youth run amok intent on dealing out their form of own justice. RECENT events once again demonstrate the youth’s conviction that mob action is the best way to express…
While some say ‘we told you so’, few are against changing the curriculum ALL those 66 specific outcomes you drummed into your head — well, now you can forget about them. This is…
Sesame Street has been given a unique local flavour as it entertains and educates South African preschoolers. THE furry TV friends of the likes of Cookie Monster and Big Bird…
EFFORTS to clean up the education system in Mpumalanga are paying off, as educators who do nothing other than slack off are being called to account. The most recent individual to…
Should Shakespeare retain his hallowed place in our curriculum? ”MARRY, before he fell down, when he perceived the common herd was glad he refused the crown, he plucked me ope…
The curriculum is likely to be marked by changes for some time THE period of transition from the dreaded apartheid-based form of education to a curriculum that complements and…
