Members claim a lack of preparation and discipline under chief whip Motshekga.
A new planning framework for teacher education and development in the next 15 years was launched on Tuesday by the education department.
New evaluation authority will promote accountability and service delivery.
The allegations of impropriety are malicious and hollow, says the basic education department.
It is unconscionable that 1,6-million learners in the Eastern Cape have been denied their right to school nutrition.
Let’s place the truth about the 2010 matric results on the table.
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/ 18 January 2011
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No problems were reported on the first day of the school year on Wednesday, education authorities said.
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/ 12 January 2011
Education department officials were visiting various schools in Gauteng on Wednesday morning as pupils began a new school year.
The 2010 maths and science matric results rang alarm bells for some educationists.
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The matric class of 2010 have shrugged off setbacks from a month-long World Cup break and a teacher strike to record a rise in the national pass rate.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has described the matric pass rate of 67,8% as a "significant achievement".
More than 67% of matrics passed last year’s exams — up from 60,7% in 2009, the basic education ministry announced in Pretoria on Thursday.
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/ 14 October 2010
It’s all systems go for the year-end school exams in 10 days’ time, despite the difficulties of experienced this year, the education minister says.
Government is sweeping under the carpet the core reasons for dysfunctional schooling.
The minister of basic education has proposed that October be celebrated as "Teachers’ Month" to recognise the significant role of teachers in society.
More than two months after delivering "yellow cards" to government education activists Equal Education are yet to receive any response.
The role of school district officers was one of the critical issues under the spotlight at the Education Week Convention in Ekurhuleni this week.
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/ 29 September 2010
Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are home to most of the country’s dysfunctional schools, which recorded the worst pass rates in the 2009 N
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/ 26 September 2010
The ANC Women’s League has labelled youth league leader Julius Malema’s past criticism of opposition leader Helen Zille as sexist.
What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?
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/ 17 September 2010
The policeman who allegedly fired the shot that killed a grade 10 pupil in the Free State, was arrested after the ICD heard accounts of the death.
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/ 14 September 2010
Cosas has vowed to make the country “ungovernable” if the education department does not scrap matric prelim exams.
There are doubts that Angie Motshekga’s plans will yield the desired results, writes <b>Thabo Mohlala</b>.
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/ 2 September 2010
The DA has questioned the department of basic education’s ability to ensure that the no-work, no-pay rule for striking teachers is enforced.
With no end in sight to the crippling teacher strike, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has appealed to the public to assist matric learners.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently released the "Schooling 2025" blueprint. Have you read it? Did you comment on it?
Ntataise, an NGO specialising in early childhood development (ECD), will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its annual conference this week.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has urged striking teachers to respect their colleagues who chose not to get involved in the strike.
The ANC on Wednesday welcomed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s changes to the education curriculum.
The outcomes-based education (OBE) system would not be completely scrapped but would be modified to improve the performance of school pupils.