A new report highlights the need for children to be able to ‘read for meaning’ by grade three so that they do not struggle in matric.
The state said they should not have known that the toilet Michael Komape drowned in was unsafe for use.
Teachers’ union Sadtu tends to believe that it can dictate education policy. However without them the minister can’t do much.
The fall in students studying maths and schools offering the subject is causing alarm – but the government’s own figures paint a confusing picture.
If we are concerned about aspects of China, it is there that we should concentrate our efforts.
Accountability is a vague concept when it comes to SA’s education system and panelists at a Wits debate had their differences on how to improve it.
Opposition MPs have taken the basic education minister to task in Parliament after she praised the state of South Africa’s "well-resourced" schools.
A damning report held back from the public highlights the extent of cronyism and the influence of unions in filling education positions.
The department of basic education wants to block the reappointment of public school teachers who have resigned in order to access their pension funds.
The education department is offering pupils the option to learn a Chinese language, but the union wants more emphasis placed on indigenous languages.
Equal Education and pupils frustrated by the long wait for better school infrastructure picketed outside the basic education department’s office.
Bolstering a weak life orientation curriculum is proposed as one of the ways of preventing abuse, including rape, in classrooms.
"If President Jacob Zuma says young women must marry and other things, let’s not make a big thing out of it," the ANC Women’s League president said.
Suspicion about cheating has been widespread, particularly among part-time pupils, but little appears to have been done to deal with it.
The public needs information about part-time matric results to monitor the system’s success.
The conflicting statements about cheating during the 2014 matric exams equals complete national confusion.
Government remains mute about missing results and the Eastern Cape’s teacher debacle.
Government remains mute about missing results and the Eastern Cape’s teacher debacle.
Education experts fear a new proposal not to advance those who do not pass grades in the final phase will be counterproductive.
Hlaudi the hypocrite delivers a long-winded speech about the importance of the matric certificate. Because he has one. Not.
The national matric pass rate has dropped by 2.5%, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced on Monday.
The Department of Basic Education is putting measures in place to ensure schools stop dropping the two critical subjects.
The basic education department has denied another gaffe in the Limpopo textbooks debacle, after it reportedly missed out on discounts for 2015 books.
Publishers bemoan the impossibly tight deadlines imposed by the education department, which compromises academic quality.
The department of basic education announced it will begin an investigation into allegations that union members were selling teacher posts.
Cars from the minister’s office have been attached to ensure the education department coughs up the R28-million it owes in teacher salaries.
The report on matric reform by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s task team presents her with a political headache.
The league’s already delayed national conference will take place even later than expected amid concerns that the organisation is losing its relevancy.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will mull a task team’s recommendations into the matric pass rate.
NGOs consider using soccer clubs, traditional healers, churches and even shebeens to tell SA about government’s plan to fix school infrastructure.
History could soon be a compulsory subject in schools to enhance nation-building, national pride, patriotism, social cohesion and cultural heritage.