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/ 24 January 2006
Leading American aircraft accident investigator Dr Norton Jungelson is once again in the news after an unruly passenger had to be restrained on a flight between Boston and Portland, Oregon. The passenger had been unable to gain access to any one of the aircraft’s six toilets, because these were being used by dozens of other passengers who had eaten an "out of date" flight meal.
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/ 24 January 2006
The Eastern Cape sprung a surprise on the country by being the only province to record an improvement in its 2005 matric results. The province’s performance rose from 53,5% to 56,7%. The results in other provinces, however, showed a decrease, dragging the national figures down from a 70,7% pass rate in 2004 to 68,3% last year.
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/ 24 January 2006
Nobody messes with Jacqui Taylor’s girls! Taylor is a feisty Rosettenville, Johannesburg mother of three and will not stand for her children receiving second best when they’ve put in the graft. She explains that this is what pushed her towards home schooling.
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/ 24 January 2006
Ten years after the dawn of democracy, a new survey of Grade 6 learning has shown that we have not overcome the legacy of decades of neglect and discrimination. Although the schools are now part of a non-racial system the evaluation reveals that five out of 10 schoolchildren are not achieving the expected learning outcomes in natural sciences.
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/ 24 January 2006
School governing bodies are currently engaged in setting fees for the academic year and presenting financial statements to the fee-paying school community. Or, more likely, the handful of parents who show up at these meetings. Some schools are more enterprising, inviting "supporters" to these meetings who will endorse the raise in fees without complaint.
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/ 24 January 2006
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 I am moving on from <i>the Teacher</i>.
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/ 24 January 2006
Kooky, off-the-wall, downright crazy — home schoolers have been labelled this and worse. Yet they say there is method behind their “madness”. Some even believe that their model is the future model for education globally. There are about 50 000 registered learners in South Africa who receive a home education.
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/ 24 January 2006
Of Gauteng’s 15 municipalities, only those led by women — Lesedi, Midvaal, Westonaria and the West Rand — received unqualified audit reports for 2003/04.
"It is encouraging that the four municipalities that have performed with regard to their finances are led by woman mayors," says Gauteng local government minister Qedani Dorothy Mahlangu.
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/ 24 January 2006
Voluntary counselling and testing services are meant to help HIV-positive people cope with the disease, but some counsellors are doing more harm than good, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal. NGOs and Aids activists in the province say many HIV-positive patients could live longer lives if provided with better information about the virus and their treatment options.
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/ 24 January 2006
In the latest issue of a leading Japanese organic food magazine, readers learn how to bring up children to select the freshest vegetables and discover the health virtues of avocados, cauliflowers and chrysanthemums — and there is a feature extolling ”organic” whale meat.