Education

High levels of ill-discipline and violence characterise many South African schools. The landscape has seen the erosion of teachers’ authority,...

Two years ago, Queenstown teenager Yamkela Sondlo (17) narrowly scraped through her grade 11

As a Russia-Africa summit opens in Sochi on the Black Sea on October 24, a more modest but significant conference will take place in Abidjan, the...

Corruption in the education system means schoolchildren cannot learn. Without learning, they will be excluded from the next industrial revolution...

The Gauteng department of education says it has spent over a R121-million at 256 schools in the province since the start of the year, as a result...

Blade Nzimande — the minister of higher education and training, science and technology — has appointed former University of Johannesburg vice-chancellor, Professor Ihron Rensburg, as an administrator at the Vaal University of Technology....

South African universities are actively pursuing gender equality and academic advancement opportunities to substantially increase the number of...

“You live on hope and faith, especially hope,” says Bafana Kunyane, 32. In 2011, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology with...

South Africa’s education system, and the departments involved, have long been criticised for their seeming preoccupation with matric results....

Learning and schooling are not the same thing. What does it mean for children to learn? What skills and knowledge do we hope children will have by...

Inadequate funding for education is not the key challenge facing South Africa’s struggling public education system; rather, the inefficient...

Polly Boshielo, the Limpopo MEC for education, has committed to eliminating pit toilets in the province by the end of this financial year. Giving...

As a teacher educator I am often told that universities are not preparing pre-service teachers sufficiently for the demands of teaching in the...

Thirty-one years ago, Salim Abdool Karim told his wife that he wanted to become a fellow of the Royal Society.