Cynthia Fulani tells how an 11-year-old learner became obsessed with her In 1996 I was a substitute teacher in an Alexandria farm school for three months. It was my first time to be in front of a class. There was this brilliant 11-year-old boy in my class who always did things that demanded my attention. […]
In February, the Minister of Education, Kader Asmal, convened a national conference on Values, Education and Democracy in the 21st Century. The aim of the indaba was to focus on the ways in which education shapes the soul of our society. The education system is more than a way of training our children for their […]
Libby Young takes a look at what’s on the webcams Not just a source of boundless data, the Internet can also provide a window looking onto the far reaches of the globe. This is possible through webcams – cameras hooked up to Internet-connected computers that provide live, or nearly live, images. The first and most […]
A leadership crisis leaves Eastern Cape teachers in limbo, writes Julia Grey The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) went on a day-long strike last month to demand that the ”corruption, maladministration and inefficiency” of the Eastern Cape Provincial Education Department (Ecped) be investigated. Key demands from the provincial Sadtu organisation – which boasts a […]
Welcome to the Teacher: Your Guide to Education. The newspaper was scheduled to be renamed ”The Educator” this month. In March, I promised that we would be sporting a new name to go with our brighter look and focus. However, after a great deal of soul-searching and fierce debate, it was decided that there could […]
In the last days before the fall of Saigon, Nguyen Thanh Trung was a pilot with a mission to bomb the presidential palace and United States embassy. Thirty years later, his ambition is to pilot the first direct Vietnam Airlines flight to the United States. Nguyen Huu Co was a general in the last South Vietnamese Cabinet. Now, at 81, he’s off to Nebraska to see his granddaughter graduate from college.
Nothing could be more bizarre than a ski resort in a desert but Dubai is making it happen later this year when residents and tourists will have the option to don salopettes, boots and woolly hats and hit the slopes. Ski Dubai is a formidable engineering feat, an incongruous 25-storey structure rising from the Gulf emirate’s sands.
Instead of choosing knitting as her pastime, pensioner Jane O’Hara prefers to give reading lessons to pupils at Troyeville Primary School on a voluntary basis. On any given Tuesday and Wednesday you will find her sitting with a pupil for half an hour, giving them the individual attention they need to improve their ability to […]
Where and when were you at school? I completed most of my schooling in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, from 1984 to 1994. My junior school was Rhodes Estate Preparatory School (REPS) in the Matopos situated outside Bulawayo. Strange that my schooling was in the heartland of Matabeleland, the centre of the atrocities of the early and mid-Eighties. […]
Girls need education to be able to participate fully in society. This was the message that came out of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. A significant step in the right direction taken by African leaders was the creation of the Girls Education Movement (Gem), launched first in Uganda […]