Serious problems in system leave hundreds of thousands of eligible applicants empty-handed.
The budget allocated to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme shows government will be dealing with the funding problem for poor students soon.
Suspended teacher union members insist their removal ahead of key conferences is a ploy by a Cosatu faction.
Parents take to the streets to protest against a school’s decision to only admit Afrikaans pupils.
The Eastern Cape education department will have to publish an admission that an earlier audit on shortages of furniture contained irregularities.
The row at Wits over an alleged racial and ethnic profiling tactic by Zionist organisations to control access to a jazz concert has intensified.
The row at Wits over an alleged racial and ethnic profiling tactic by Zionist organisations to control access to the a jazz concert has intensified.
The basic education department only realised on the eve of paying teachers it had several months earlier "erroneously" signed the labour agreement.
A recent survey of Wits lecturers has revealed dissatisfaction with governance and salaries, a view new vice-chancellor Adam Habib plans to change.
After expressing his misgivings, Seepe turns his back on a ‘compromised’ selection process.
Sadtu’s protest over marker payments is just the labour facet of a far wider political battle.
Teacher unions have told the Mail & Guardian they will oppose the return of school inspectors, as proposed by President Jacob Zuma.
As the ANC goes to its elective conference in Mangaung, we look at the resolutions made at the 2007 Polokwane conference. What have they achieved?
The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union has indicated that knives would soon be out for department of basic education’s Bobby Soobrayan.
Pupils in the country’s rural schools remain disadvantaged by absent resources, and that is why they performed worse than their urban counterparts.
A former unionist says claims were fabricated to protect Vaal techinkon’s vice-chancellor.
The Annual National Assessment results show that grade nine pupils scored on average a shocking 13% in maths.
The basic education department has agreed to deliver furniture to three Eastern Cape schools after a court challenge by the Legal Resources Centre.
Selection committee’s choice reflects "impatience with the status quo" among key constituencies.
Vaal University of Technology vice-chancellor Irene Moutlana has been suspended from the university over longstanding corruption allegations.
A global think-tank has highlighted the need to involve civil society in all education matters.
If the perception that vocational education is an "option for losers" persists, unemployment and social instability will continue to escalate.
Apartheid-style segregation and the poor treatment of outsourced workers is to be investigated at Wits.
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Students at the Eastern Cape’s Walter Sisulu University are still waiting for their loans from the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to be paid.
They claim drastic legal changes will give him more power to interfere.
A flawed funding model results in poor schools reducing the number of subjects they offer and enduring larger class sizes than richer schools.
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.
Northern Cape matrics, barred from their schools earlier this year, have been forced to relocate to a remote hostel, but there is a silver lining.
Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has blamed budgetary constraints and pupil data problems for the department’s failures.
While parts of the dispute between the department of education and Section27 have been settled, three big issues will still be decided upon this week.
Public protector fails to get Northern Cape town to reopen schools that have been closed for months.
Angry Northern Cape communities argue that closing schools is in the learners’ best interests.