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The girl who fell out of school

Education Bongekile Macupe - 13 Aug 2020

The Free State education department and a special needs school have failed to enrol a pupil in class despite a court ordering them to do so

Northern Cape education MEC Mac Jack dies

Education Bongekile Macupe - 12 Aug 2020

The ‘seasoned cadre of the movement’ and active public servant died in hospital on Wednesday, Premier Zamani Saul said in a statement.

Matrics will write exams in November

Education Bongekile Macupe - 12 Aug 2020

The department of basic education has announced that the class of 2020 will sit for its final examinations later than usual.

We need more women in STEM careers

Education Nox Makunga - 9 Aug 2020

Local solutions are needed to get more women into science, technology, engineering and maths

New education policy on gender violence released

Education Bongekile Macupe - 9 Aug 2020

Universities and other higher education institutions have to develop ways of preventing or dealing with rape and other damaging behaviour

Teachers having sexual relationships with learners is illegal

Education Bongekile Macupe - 9 Aug 2020

The Sexual Offences Act criminalises sex with a person under the age of 16 by a person over the age of 18

Fees free fall, independent schools close

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 8 Aug 2020

Parents have lost their jobs or had salaries cut; without state help the schools just can’t survive

Covid-19 pandemic highlights challenges of online teaching and learning

Coronavirus Francois Cleophas - 6 Aug 2020

The obvious hurdle is how to deal with economic inequalities among students, while other difficulties are communication without the physical aspects and how to build trust.

Students, we will need your critical thinking after the Covid-19 hard reset

Coronavirus Philip Machanick - 5 Aug 2020

Economically disadvantaged students suffer most from disrupted education, but they also have the most to contribute to lessening inequality when we build the new normal

There are useful lessons to learn from the generation of the 1986 emergency

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 2 Aug 2020

The parents of the 2020 crisis have little say about their children’s education

Miss Rona’s teaching the 4IR lessons

Coronavirus Colleen Millar - 2 Aug 2020

Schooling is stuck in the 1950s, but technology must be blended with the basics of education

Teachers trying to catch up, ‘ticking boxes’, overloading learners

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 2 Aug 2020

Teachers who spoke to the Mail & Guardian this week are not confident that any effective teaching and learning will take place during this academic year, even if it is extended

‘I will have to repeat grade 8’

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 2 Aug 2020

Schools have been closed again. After months of doing schoolwork at home, not all parents think their children are ready to move to the next grade

Walter Sisulu University is playing catch-up with online learning

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 28 Jul 2020

Some affluent institutions have already finished the first semester online, but historically disadvantaged universities like Walter Sisulu University are having to start from scratch

KZN education officials suspended for mismanagement of sanitary-pads project

Education Bongekile Macupe - 26 Jul 2020

Unions have welcomed the suspension of three senior officials in KZN’s department of education for mismanagement of a sanitary-pads distribution project

A small number of students can return to university, but some choose not to

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 26 Jul 2020

They stayed away because they feared getting Covid-19, had comorbidities, were in quarantine, had become infected and the safety measures such as curfews were too limiting

Children will learn under lockdown

Coronavirus Elizabeth Henning - 26 Jul 2020

Just what they’ll learn or be taught will be outside the curriculum, which may have to happen later

Students ‘dreams are crumbling’

Coronavirus Bongekile Macupe - 25 Jul 2020

Those at historically disadvantaged universities feel abandoned while their peers at richer institutions continue with their studies

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