Millions of young people in Africa are failing to excel because they continue to be denied access to quality education
The programme will support people involved in raising and educating children
The president has instructed Motshekga to develop an emergency plan to eradicate unsafe structures. But the audit and the plans already exist!
Some schools in the Eastern Cape, which have no sanitation at all, would be addressed with urgency
Five-year-old Viwe Jali fell into the toilet at the Luna Primary School in Bizana on Tuesday
“If we want students to become smarter than a smartphone, we need to think harder about the pedagogies we are using to teach them."
If the government fails to provide quality free basic education, then how does it expect to provide free quality tertiary education?
"Out of desperation, I took a job. Ironically, by accepting leadership, it led me back to teaching"
Readers write in about racism and digital education
There is a difference between discipline and corporal punishment: one means teaching acceptable behaviours and the other intends grievous bodily harm
A document reporting that 90 000 learners need transport in KZN has been touted as incorrect even though the department had six months to collect data
Some students say that NPO Numeric has an illegitimate relationship with bursary scheme Funza Lushaka, as it uses student bursaries to fund itself.
Studies show the odds are stacked against learners from poorer backgrounds, so why do some succeed where others fail?
KwaZulu-Natal department cites budget constraints as pupils continue to suffer the effects of lack of easy access to schools.
So much research has been done on what basic education needs. It must now be used
A number of schools in the south of Johannesburg have been operating without electricity or running water for years.
Children rent rooms in South Africa so that they can get an education – and a meal a day.
Upskill, train or capacitate – in the end it’s for their future and those of South Africa’s children.
The basic education department will beef up its results by pushing through learners and testing the ability of aspirant principals
Sadtu says testing demeans their members. Why?
The majority of the schools are from KwaZulu-Natal, where 10 schools had no national senior certificate passes.
An academic explains why the national pass rate is not an accurate reflection of the country’s education system.
The basic education minister says failing pupils does not help them and that they should instead be supported in their areas of weakness.
If you increase the number of schools then you must increase the resources and the number of officials.
South African education does have a good story to tell — but not the one told by misleading statistics.
You’ll be able to read this whole headline by the time you’ve trained to be a teacher at South Africa’s universities.
Teacher unions reject clocking-in system for educators despite study finding they are regularly absent.
But English first additional language educators have been thwarted since their own school days, writes Prega Govender.
A major problem is the fraught relationship between the unions and the department, writes Michael Gardiner.
"In a democracy such as ours, the underlying argument is that parents should be free to send their children to a school of their choice."
The gap between haves and have-nots is already set in stone for life in primary school, a study says.
The schools may no longer be burning and police are making progress in finding those behind the fiery attacks, but Vuwani residents are not reassured.