Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga should apologise publicly for a "racist" statement she made last week, says Equal Education.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has no intention of retracting her department’s blistering attack on rights organisation Equal Education.
Angie Motshekga is way too busy these days to notice the outrage over her poor leadership. Clearly her department is in need of a (Harlem) shake-up.
The basic education department accused Equal Education of being dishonest and patronising by "organising black African children with half-truths".
The basic education department is in breach of a court order regarding textbook delivery, says civil rights group Section27.
Parents in the Eastern Cape have shut down schools because of horrendous conditions. Nomalanga Mkhize asks when the state will step in.
Last year’s landmark legal case after the basic education department’s failure to address appalling school infrastructure made its mark on the budget.
The right to basic education has received a major boost with the launch of the South African Human Rights Commission’s (SAHRC) landmark charter.
Our expensive testing and research still do not tell us enough about how children learn the subject, writes Elizabeth Henning.
The first bad thing about the 2012 matric results is that 35% of the pupils failed completely.
The failure of education is political and goes back to the importance we attach to it, says Songezo Zibi.
Students who did not pass their matric have until January 21 to register for a re-marking or re-checking.
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 basic education department has agreed to deliver furniture to three Eastern Cape schools after a court challenge by the Legal Resources Centre.
They’ve just won a major legal victory, but for Equal Education the battle has only begun.
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.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says her department has done all it can to help learners through a "really dramatic year" ahead of exams.
Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department’s failures.
Mduduzi Manana writes to Professor Peter Vale to say he is committed to delivering quality education in South Africa.
New data expose the staggering inequities in state schooling, putting Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s own performance squarely on the line.
Moves are afoot to ask the Constitutional Court to enforce quality basic education for all children in the country, Jean Pease reports.
The DA and Cope have said they want Angie Motshekga to answer to allegations that textbooks are being dumped and destroyed in Limpopo.
SA’s publishing industry had better prepare for deep and dire straits if the ANC’s plan to nationalise the production of textbooks goes ahead.
Many South Africans say pregnant teens should stay home from school lest they "disturb the class", but activists are working hard to change attitudes.
The basic education department’s failure to provide textbooks for several Limpopo schools violated the Constitution, a high court has ruled.
Leaders from industry have a vital role to play in helping to fix South Africa’s failing schooling system, writes Louise van Rhyn.
Teachers must be placed at the centre of efforts to reform SA’s ailing education system, delegates at national education conference have heard.
A team of chemical engineers at UKZN is hard at work trying to develop a high-tech, multi-use toilet that people in the developing world will want.
NGOs have asked the Eastern Cape High Court to overturn Zuma’s decision to withdraw a national intervention team in the province.
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/ 17 February 2012
Basic Education Minister Angie says public school teachers have to go where they are sent if they want to remain employed.
Capitalism and education do not mix: privatising all of South Africa’s schools would only deepen the crisis, writes <b>Andrew Verrijdt</b>.