The National Professional Diploma in Education is an example of constructive cooperation between the government, social partners, NGOs and higher education institutions for the delivery of quality public education. This national teacher-training exercise yielded many success — and also difficulties.
It’s been 36 years since Jaguar brought out their first XJ6, and a number of my good friends have bought them over the years. This was not because they were great cars, but because they were so — well, crap. But that was then and now is now. Since Ford absorbed Jaguar into their Premier Group stable, the British products have improved in leaps and bounds.
For a number of decades, environmental learning has taken place as part of formal education in South Africa and many countries around the world. However, the introduction of environment as a focus for all teaching and learning processes within the Revised National Curriculum Statement has been a much-desired change in education.
Thousands of Eastern Cape schools opened for the new school year late last month without essential stationery, including basics such as pencils and paper. A lack of planning by the province’s education department is to blame for the blunder.
"Don’t take teaching for granted! It’s what made me what I am today." Julia Grey spoke to Angie Isaks, the people and conservation officerat Augrabies Falls National Park.
In Part 1 of this article, published in the December issue of <i>theTeacher</i>, I described how Roy Killen of Australia and I applied the powerful OBE concept of "Outcomes of Significance" to South Africa’s 12 Critical Outcomes." William Spady looks to the future in Part 2.
What on earth were the hordes of South African observers doing in Zimbabwe? They certainly didn’t see the election we witnessed, if their reports are anything to go by. Living it up at the Meikles, no doubt, and probably shopping up a storm on their allowances. We should ask for our money back. It is true that there are none so blind as those who will not see, and the free and fair bill of health bestowed on the poll is a joke.
Three thousand more workers were served with retrenchment notices this week as the Congress of South African Trade Unions — Cosatu — suffered a double blow after government and business refused to accede to its demands aimed at stemming a "tidal wave" of job losses. This has raised fears that a crippling national strike is now inevitable.
In South Africa, 9% of all teen deaths are suicides. In fact, only car accidents and homicide kill more young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Lourens Schlebusch of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in Durban is a world expert on suicide. Currently, he estimates there are at least 20 to 25 suicides per day in South Africa.
Ethnic clashes, blamed on competition for increasingly scarce water and grazing, are sweeping northern Kenya, as drought and famine intensify in the neglected region. Since the beginning of the year, more than 100 people have been killed in renewed violence perpetrated under the cover of long-simmering ethnic animosities, and fueled by the myriad conflicts which surround northern Kenya.