Forty-six UK teachers will arrive in Johannesburg on Monday 21 July to begin a five week placement in rural schools in the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape. The teachers have been recruited by Link Community Development – an NGO which specialises in school and district improvement and works in partnership with the Department of Education. […]
Kwenxurha High School in Mooiplaas, 40kms east of East London, is an ugly hodgepodge of brick buildings and wooden shacks. You could say it’s a typical rural school – except that this one hasn’t given up just yet. We’re here to help them set up a media club. This is an account of our visit […]
“Teaching as a profession in South Africa is fading. It is a worrying factor. Where do we go wrong? Without education no country will survive!” These were the concluding remarks made by Eastern Cape education MEC Nomsa Jajula at a public function in May. But a look at the atrocious conditions and fraught education systems […]
Taking up the challenge to go green starts with something as simple as picking up after yourself. This has been the philosophy of the Ikaneng School in Diepsloot, Soweto, and the learners’ simple actions have snowballed into a solid commitment to make their school a shining example of environmental awareness. The school has incorporated a […]
A school that started 113 years ago as a one-learner outfit in the house of a German pastor named Kuschke has grown into the renowned Deutsche Schule zu Johannesburg (DSJ) with almost 1000 learners. International events helped fashion the school, with the flood of German immigrants following the gold rush to Johannesburg in the late […]
School libraries are central to a successful learning and reading programme in a school, particularly in South Africa where outcomes-based education (OBE) is the norm. OBE is a resource-based methodology which means that both educators and learners are reliant on access to a range of resources for the teaching method to be successful,” says Joy […]
Relatively new – and often misunderstood – kids on the education block are the Further Education and Training (FET) colleges. Established by the FET Act in 1998, the 150 institutions formerly known as technical colleges went through a process of change to re-emerge as 50 FET colleges. So what are FET colleges? Are they for […]
Hinduism differs from Western religions in that it does not have a single founder, a specific theological system, a single system of morality, or a central, religious organization. It consists of thousands of different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BC. Hinduism is generally regarded as the world’s oldest organised religion. Hinduism […]
Shafee Willenberg has spent 22 years teaching science and mathematics. Highlights of your teaching career? These were during the years of the struggle against apartheid when teachers, parents and learners showed a willingness to make major sacrifices – there was an enthusiasm from many learners even under extremely difficult circumstances. While there were many sad […]
Annette du Toit has taught Afrikaans and music for 21 years. How did you get into teaching? At school I dreamed of becoming a teacher as I idealised a teacher’s role in school life. The dynamics of teaching a group fascinated me. My father was a teacher who also inspired me. Teaching highlights? For me […]