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/ 10 November 2005
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 written submission in a month.
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/ 10 November 2005
At first glance, the computer room at Optima College looks like any other computer room at schools around the country. Young adult learners sit in front of a row of computers with standard keyboards. Their teacher, Deena Moodley, moves attentively between them, clarifying questions. But something is different –
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/ 10 November 2005
A rural community’s definition of relevant science education, and the processes by which the definition was developed, are important statements about human rights, democracy and social justice.
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/ 10 November 2005
Poorly trained mathematics and science teachers in Sekhukhune district, Limpopo, have something to count on to improve their skills: a mathematics and science project run by St Marks College Trust, an Anglican education facility in Jane Furse.
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/ 10 November 2005
In my previous two columns in the Teacher, I’ve traced the evolution of outcomes based education (OBE) thinking and implementation over the past 35 years, from its early emphasis on expanding the conditions of success in schools and classrooms to its transformational emphasis.
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/ 10 November 2005
The Old Mutual Foundation (OMF) has added an environmental component to its "out of the box" mathematics and science portfolio. The new offering seeks to help learners switch with ease to the revised curriculum that is due next year.
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/ 10 November 2005
The company that prints the <i>Saturday Star</i> is staying mum on why thousands of copies of the newspaper were not delivered to subscribers two weeks ago. A problem at the Newspaper Printing Company’s printing presses in Johannesburg prevented the distribution of the October 29 issue of the newspaper.
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/ 10 November 2005
Pregnant women with malaria produce increased quantities of a chemical called TNF-alpha in their placenta, which nourishes the foetus as it develops, say scientists in Cameroon. This chemical boosts HIV replication and might explain why more children are born with HIV after the rainy season there.
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/ 9 November 2005
There are competing claims to some of the land to which the Constitutional Court has already ruled that the Richtersveld community has a restoration right, it emerged on Wednesday. The announcement was made in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town by the state’s lead counsel in the Richtersveld land hearing.