Education development centres could be the key to much-needed teacher support THE need for a rethink on the ways in which support for qualified teachers is offered and made available is acute. The first instance of this need is provided by figures quoted in the 1999 Education for All 2000 Assessment: South Africa Report. Examples […]
Curriculum transformation presents major challenges ahead, writes MICHAEL KAHN OUTCOMES-based education (OBE) is the most far-ranging change to education that this country has ever seen. We are not the first nation to change its education system, but our change is more complex than usual. In education, new departments were formed, new examinations set, colleges rationalised […]
AN impoverished school in rural Northern Province was given R72 000 on Monday to build desperately needed classrooms. Education spokesman, Kenny Mathivha, said the donation, from computer technology company Lucent Technologies, would also be used to renovate facilities at Selaelo Primary School in Bochum near Pietersburg. The company gave the money to a special charity […]
MPUMALANGA education MEC, Craig Padayachee, failed to attend a meeting on Thursday to address the locking out of over 1 000 rural children from primary school. The children of Ndlaphu Primary School near Nelspruit have not been able to attend class since Monday and matters grew worse on Wednesday when the gates were welded shut. […]
A NORTHERN Province technical college was systematically fleeced of almost R500 000 over the past few months without realising it. Officials at Giyani Technical College only discovered they had been defrauded when they wanted to buy something in town on Monday and were told their bank account was overdrawn. It appeared someone had been using […]
POLICEMEN were chased away on Tuesday when they tried to force open gates that had been welded shut at a rural school near Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. Over 1 000 children have not attended class since last Monday after a sub-contractor locked them out in an effort to force the education department to honour an outstanding […]
MPUMALANGA police had to remove some 20 people who staged a sit-in at government offices on Tuesday night to try force the education department to pay an outstanding bill of R1,3 million. The protesters sat in at the department of public works in Nelspruit after education officials told them the matter was the responsibility of […]
POLICE on Monday dismissed reports that the stabbing incident at a Witbank school where a coloured pupil allegedly injured a white colleague was racially motivated, African Eye News Service reports. Shaun Craig McDonald, 18, a Grade 11 pupil at Hoerskool Reynopark in Witbank allegedly stabbed Hendrik Trichardt during a schoolyard brawl on Tuesday afternoon. Witbank […]
THE South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the European Union (EU) recently launched the EU’s R88-million contribution to SAQA for the development of South Africa’s education system and the review of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The high-profile occasion was attended by Minister of Education Kader Asmal and was held at Alexandra Technical College. Asmal […]
OVER 190 Mpumalanga teachers are being trained to counsel children who are raped and abused. Nokuthula Ndlovu of Lekazi Primary School in Kanyamazane near Nelspruit is one of 195 teachers undergoing nine months of training. “The training is important because we’ve encountered problems with children who have been abused. Girls as young as 13 years […]