MPUMALANGA’S department of education fired two high-ranking officials on Thursday for their involvement in the 1998 matric scandal in which results were fraudulently inflated to 72%. Former examination head, Gogo Ndlovana, and first education specialist, Kate Mokone, were fired upon the recommendation of Professor Papa Maithufi who headed an internal investigation into the scandal. Maithufi […]
Nigel Bakker teaches English methodology at the University of Cape Town’s School of Education. and is editor of Maskew Miller Longman’s new Active Shakespeare series. He spoke to SEAN O’CONNOR about teaching Shakespeare. What are your favourite memories of teaching Shakespeare? I have one favourite memory that is repeated over and over, each time I […]
You can love him or hate him, but the works of Shakespeare are a poetic force that can’t be ignored — and can be taught creatively THAT most famous bard of Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare, is being subjected to an experiment. The aim is to find out whether his plays are relics of old (not […]
The Gauteng Department of Education is finding focus and form under the leadership of recently appointed MEC Ignatius Jacobs. CALLS from Minister of Education Kader Asmal for schools to become the centres of community life have resulted in an innovation that Gauteng Education MEC Ignatius Jacobs hopes will change the mindset of the majority to […]
The Gauteng MEC for Education is shaking things up with his hands-on approach BASED in an office 10 floors above the streets of downtown Johannesburg, Gauteng MEC for Education Ignatius Jacobs is a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. Jacobs, who believes in the ”rare skill” of listening, continually emphasises the value he […]
Education MECs are taking to blitzing problem schools to sort them out. LEARNERS and teachers who like to be serial slackers had better watch out. These days, the next guy to walk into the shebeen during working hours might just be an MEC. Worse still, as Gauteng MEC for Education Ignatius Jacobs showed late last […]
WHILE the worst of the cyclones and floods seems to have abated, schooling is still on hold in the Northern Province. Department representative Rapule Matsane says that the 382 schools previously reported closed will remain so, while a further 322 in the Ellis Rus area are also not presently functioning. This brings the number of […]
Over 200 000 learners have been effected by the floods in the Northern Province. THE schooling of hundreds of thousands of learners has been suspended because of the floods that have ravaged the Northern Province. Department representative Rapule Matsane says that four of the seven regions have reported the closure of 382 schools. The estimated […]
Confusion reigns as an independent school forced to close goes to court ACTION by the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) to crack down on ”fly-by-night” independent schools operating illegally may open the GDE up to legal action. A Pretoria-based independent school, Way to Success Academy, late last month took the GDE to court for having […]
Minister of Education Kader Asmal launches an independent review of Curriculum 2005. ALTHOUGH Curriculum 2005 is being reviewed by an independent team of educationists, millions of government money is set to be spent on new materials for piloting Grades 4 and 8, to be phased in next year. Many are asking why Minister of Education […]