Bulgarians drafted in as size of problem becomes clear Thursday August 30, 2001 Record numbers of teachers who trained in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and even Bulgaria and Russia, will be arriving to start new jobs in schools in England in the next few days, as local education authorities opt for short-term solutions to what […]
This year, two hundred thousand young people from every part of South Africa participated in the country’s largest inter-school sports and development initiative, reports David Harrison Picture a 14 year-old girl from a far-flung village in the Northern Province. She has never been on a tar road before. Such a young girl typically expects to […]
Scotland is to ban adults from hitting toddlers – and the rest of the UK may follow. Harassed mum Kate Figes considers the alternatives Wednesday September 12, 2001 To smack or not to smack is fast becoming a question that will be decided by law rather than individual parents. Ten European countries have now outlawed […]
And activates hemispheres Playstations cannot reach, says Tim Radford Tuesday August 28, 2001 Forget Lara Croft. Think long division. Mental arithmetic bulks up brain muscle far more than any quick-fingered exercise on a PlayStation, according to a Japanese professor. The conclusion: thinking maths takes the brain to places no other activity can reach. Ryuta Kawashima […]
Women in the nine high-population countries are the target of education drives, with immediate results for their children, writes Nadia Khouri-Dagher Women are the target of education drives in many countries today, mainly because their educational level has been shown to have a direct effect on that of their children. This is an established fact, […]
Forty-five years after thousands marched in protest against pass laws, women are still second class citizens, write Julia Grey and Edwin Naidu South African women are still fighting to be accepted as equals and given the same opportunities as males in the workplace, including in the teaching profession. Discrimination continues to undermine the status of […]
In one of his first tasks since his appointment as MEC in charge of Education, Culture and Sport in KwaZulu-Natal, Lindumusa Gabriel Ndabandaba has begun proceedings to dismiss an educator who was absent from school for a long period claiming he feared for his safety. Ndabandaba said he will adopt a hard-line against educators who […]
The Eastern Cape finally seems to have come up with measures to improve education delivery. Julia Grey reports The steep learning curve that the Eastern Cape Department of Education has been struggling along may at last be leading to some stability, as weaknesses in the system are tackled in earnest. Efforts to weed out corruption […]
Important agreements reached last month in the Education Labour Relations Council promise to bring more stability to a profession that has long been plagued by insecurity. The four resolutions will have major implications for the most vulnerable in the teaching force, including temporary teachers and underqualified teachers. The main implications for the teaching profession are: […]
Deputy Minister of Education Mosibudi Mangena has a lot on his plate, writes Edwin Naidu One of the strangest anomalies in South Africa, according to Deputy Minister of Education Mosibudi Mangena, is that tertiary institutions are threatened by closure due to dwindling student numbers while construction of new jails is booming. “That’s a terrible reality. […]