Mark Potterton

Especially in a country like South Africa with its huge inequalities, a digital divide and teacher unions

Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg has learned some important lessons about teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown

Jonathan Jansen spells out the issues and difficulties in making SA a more equal society in his book, Leading for Change, writes Mark Potterton.

The education system focuses doggedly on the National Senior Certificate and the outcome of these exams, to the detriment of students.

Improving access to quality education is a societal issue, but it’s for a school’s head to fish out the rot.

Teachers and pupils have a responsibility to animate a caring ethos in their institutions.

Ideas on how to create caring schools that build self-esteem.

In part three of our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> looks at what schools should do about bullying.

In this second article in our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> gives valuable tips on how to eradicate a worldwide scourge.

Bullying is an ongoing problem in schools and in society. This month we start a series in which we explore what bullying is and how to deal with it.

<b>Mark Potterton</b> tackles a subject that makes both parents and educators hot under the collar.

Jonathan Jansen’s ‘pardoning’ of four University of the Free State students seems to run counter to some ideas in his groundbreaking book.

Readers of the Teacher will be familiar with the writing of Dr Richard Hayward, the author of this book.

Getting Schools Working has its roots in research commissioned by the Presidents’ Education Initiative published in 1999 as Getting Learning Right. This new book addresses the…

Illegal sales: Aids drugs supplied to Africa at cut rates have been illegally resold in Europe, threatening to undermine a system of preferential medicine pricing for poor…