Storm clouds loom over basic education’s "inadequate" standards and unmet deadlines, writes Victoria John.
The legacy of three court orders, a media furore, and pupils who went without textbooks last year appears to be holding strong – on Twitter.
It’s the report card you haven’t seen. The Pimples reveal the true worth of some our ministers.
At least 98% of textbooks have been delivered to inland schools ahead of the first day of school on Wednesday, the basic education department said.
Students who did not pass their matric have until January 21 to register for a re-marking or re-checking.
Matrics get their results, the world rages over the Delhi gang-rape victim, America avoids the fiscal cliff and SA’s road death toll rises.
Matric results for 2012 are looking up but they have not told us enough about the deep social inequalities experienced by pupils across the country.
Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked the country to believe that 73.9% of grade 12s are sufficiently literate and numerate to pass matric.
The state should only use public funds to put its view across if the media fails to do so, says Jacques du Preez.
There is no crisis in the quality of education in Gauteng and South Africa, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has said.
The quality of results achieved by this year’s matrics remains a concern despite a 3.7 percentage point increase in the 2012 pass rate.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says low maths marks explain South Africa’s failure and dropout rates in grades 10 and 11.
They’ve just won a major legal victory, but for Equal Education the battle has only begun.
Equal Education has said that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has agreed to promulgate minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Limpopo teachers who taught the Grade 10 catch-up programme during September have not been paid, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union said.
A flawed funding model results in poor schools reducing the number of subjects they offer and enduring larger class sizes than richer schools.
Despite recent protests, floods and textbook delivery problems, more than 500 000 pupils sat for their first matric exam on Monday.
Increasing legal cases highlight the department of education’s failure to provide basic school infrastructure, Victoria John reports.
EduSolutions executive director Moosa Ntimba tells the M& G’s Victoria John and Bongani Nkosi why his company is not at fault for the textbook crisis.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says her department has done all it can to help learners through a "really dramatic year" ahead of exams.
So heavily has the government’s thumb been pressing its "spin at all costs" button it’s become too easy to lose sight of the human realities at stake
The South African Democratic Teachers Union has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga seven days to act on the Limpopo textbooks report.
The deputy minister of finance has admitted that the controversial newspaper advert placed by the department of basic education was ill-conceived.
A gauntlet has been thrown to the basic education department to stop "lying" about textbook supply in Limpopo and take responsibility.
If publishers don’t reduce textbook prices the provincial education department will withdraw its orders – two months before books are due in schools.
A confidential report warns that the October deadline for 2013 material is unlikely to be met – leaving students in the lurch once again.
Revising our government structures might be an option, but the real problem lies with people, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The Democratic Alliance says Limpopo police need to investigate the basic education department after another load of textbooks were found dumped.
The Grahamstown High Court has ordered the department of basic education to fill vacant posts in Eastern Cape public schools by November.
From Angie and Limpopo (again) to Juju in London, Sipho Hotstix, and our Olympians, get up to speed on what everyone will be talking about this weekend.
Presidential task team members believe Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should be fired but President Jacob Zuma needs her women’s league.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is set to argue in court that children do not have an unqualified constitutional right to basic education.