For many South African adults a matric certificate is seen as vital in the competitive job market — and it’s never too late to go back to school and get it SINCE January 1996 Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) has been declared a priority in this country. Campaigns and institutes offering learning pathways to […]
The Federated Union of Black Artists offers classes in drama, dance, visual arts and music. SINCE its establishment in 1978 as the Federated Union of Black Artists (Fuba), the union has expanded to become an academy that offers classes in drama, dance, visual arts and music. But the lack of funding in the 1980s forced […]
The Music Industry Development Initiative is lobbying for music to be taught in every school as part of Curriculum 2005. THE Music Industry Development Initiative (Midi Trust), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that contributes to the development of the music industry, is lobbying for music to be taught in every school as part of Curriculum 2005. […]
In a shanty town, pupils achieve 100% pass rate. By CHRIS MCGREAL in Orange Farm MOEKETSI Molelekoa began turning potential pupils away from his school after the number of new applicants topped 300. The headmaster of Leshata secondary school had room for only half that number. There were places at other schools in the area […]
Education Minister Kader Asmal visited Soweto’s Meadowlands High on the first day of school … and came away ‘disappointed and shamed’. ON the first day of the new school year, Education Minister Kader Asmal descended on a Soweto school with one of the worst records in the country. Meadowlands high school had a 13% pass […]
Some parents are deciding not to have their children immunised, but the World Bank believes that after clean water, immunisation is the most cost-effective public health measure available. EVERY few years vaccinations get a bad press. This time, the deaths of a number of babies within a week of receiving the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) […]
What the youth are saying about sex should make us sit up and listen YOUTH are speaking out candidly — perhaps for the first time — about what sex means to them. ‘I have watched S’cumto and it’s quite cool. We were given sex education at school where we learnt a lot of things we […]
How and when to assess outcomes-based education 1. Why assess There are different purposes for assessing: to identify the needs of learners to plan learning/decide where to start to track learner progress to diagnose problems to help learners to improve their work to adjust focus and pace to provide evidence of learners’ level of achievement […]
The low status of teaching has caused student enrolments to plummet. THE status of teaching is at its lowest point in years. Redeployment and the confusion around Curriculum 2005 have done little to attract potential teachers. Instead, many suitable teaching candidates have been lured away by the private sector. Further tarnishing the image of teaching […]
Dyslexia is a serious reading problem which can stunt learners’ progress EDUCATIONAL psychologists estimate that 15% of learners have serious reading problems. Dyslexics are among them. Dyslexic children will reverse words, write letters back to front, get the letter sequences of words wrong and continually lose their place when reading aloud. In spelling tests they […]