From the moment it was clear that Labour was on course for a third election victory, the political class shifted to the real issue: when will Gordon Brown succeed Tony Blair as prime minister? Equally inevitably, attention will turn to what sort of prime minister Brown will make. Will he shift the emphasis from the centre to the centre left, governing from a more traditional Labour stance?
WELCOME back to school after what has hopefully been a relaxing break! We did not publish a July edition of The Teacher this year, because of the holidays. Our August edition, however, is bigger than usual and contains Edutech Puisano, our quarterly supplement on education technology. Thanks to everyone who completed our readership survey, particularly […]
MINISTER of Education Kader Asmal is being forced to find methods to help pregnant learners finish their education. The Constitution guarantees the right of every child to education. National Department of Education spokesman Bheki Khumalo says the issue of discipline in schools is of major concern to the government, but this does not mean violating […]
Zimbabwe’s state security and immigration officials have been delaying the release of 62 mercenaries from the Chikurubi prison since Monday. The lawyer for the men, Jonathan Samkange, told the Mail & Guardian on Thursday afternoon that ”technically my clients have been released from the custody of prison authorities. They were handed over to immigration who are treating them as illegal immigrants.”
Mpumalanga’s new Vukuzenzele Project for the Disabled is dedicated to helping disabled children attend school. UP to 80% of disabled children in Mpumalanga do not attend school, said premier Ndaweni Mahlangu on Tuesday. Speaking at the launch of the Vukuzenzele Project for the Disabled near Volksrust, he said immediate interventions had to be put in […]
POLICE arrested another two Mpumalanga education officials in their Middelburg offices on Wednesday morning on forgery charges linked to the province’s 1998 matric exam scandal. National detective services spokesman Director Nasser Mohamed said afterwards both unnamed suspects were arrested in the department’s exam printing section at 9:45am following an intensive one-year forensic investigation. The suspects, […]
SCHOOLING in Mpumalanga came to a virtual standstill on Wednesday as thousands of teachers joined protest actions by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu). Education spokesman, Peter Maminza, confirmed that almost all township and other predominantly black schools in the province failed to open when teachers boycotted classes on Wednesday morning. A small […]
Obituary: Head of the Northern Cape Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, was killed in a car crash last month TEACHERS, education officials, politicians and civil servants in the Northern Cape were shocked last month by the untimely death of the head of the provincial Department of Education, Kevin Nkoane, in a car crash. More than […]
Khoisan languages will soon be taught in schools in the Northern Cape THE Northern Cape is set to introduce the teaching of Khoisan languages into the school curriculum, in a move that will counter decades of subjugation of these indigenous tongues. MEC Tina Joemat-Pettersson announced in this year’s budget speech to the provincial parliament that […]
A new educational trust is giving street kids a good education. SIPHO Mathebula’s earliest memories are of being beaten by his stepfather every day with a sjambok, of running away from home every chance he got, and of stealing money from his mother. By the time he was six or so, he was living on […]