Many youths sentenced to jail terms miss out on getting a decent education — but some are lucky.
Many schools catering for children in conflict with the law are facing a crisis because the state missed a deadline to transform these institutions.
Eastern Cape’s education department superintendent general Modidima Mannya’s exit has paved the way for Angie Motshekga to stamp her authority.
A transformation lobby group has embarked on a collision course with the <em>taalbulle</em> who want to preserve Afrikaans at Stellenbosch University.
The basic education department will challenge Equal Education in court over demands for minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Amid legal wrangles with Equal Education over SA’s education infrastructure, the Eastern Cape has opted to improve two "appallingly unsafe" schools.
KZN’s education minister has called on the government to commit a once-off lump sum towards education in SA — much like it did for World Cup.
Partnerships with education advocacy groups, NGOs and communities have become key in improving the quality of education in the country’s poor schools.
Teachers must be placed at the centre of efforts to reform SA’s ailing education system, delegates at national education conference have heard.
Sadtu’s call to members to examine their role in delivering education is a sea change in attitude.
"Dismal system" means that many schools in the Eastern Cape don’t have enough teachers while others have too many of them.
Gwede Mantashe has cautioned Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande against losing focus of South Africa’s skills needs while promoting humanities.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has blasted Mamphela Ramphele on comments that the education system is worse off now than under apartheid.
While statistics support Helen Zille’s "refugee" comments, experts say poor education may just be one of the reasons for moving.
The Higher Education Transformation Network has demanded the North West University release its findings into the death of a first-year student.
The school governing bodies’ elections have highlighted the lack of resources at many schools, even one were ballot papers were written by hand.
Blade Nzimande’s many leadership roles have come into conflict as he skips parliament to join the Cosatu march.
Teachers are marching with Cosatu, but their pupils must be in class tomorrow. Except maybe in Cape Town, where children have been invited to join in.
A highly rated mathematics researcher and academic says negative attitudes towards mathematics harm the subject.
NGOs have asked the Eastern Cape High Court to overturn Zuma’s decision to withdraw a national intervention team in the province.
Most of the Thembelihle learners who were without schools in January have been placed but 10 learners are still struggling to find space.
Refugees are finding it increasingly difficult to access or complete education in South Africa.
Parliament wants the national education task team back in the Eastern Cape despite hostility from local officials.
Despite reports of ongoing shortages, the companies involved in printing and distributing school workbooks have been praised by the government.
The former council of UniZulu has been accused of corruption in a report detailing findings of a forensic investigation into the university’s affairs.
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/ 3 February 2012
Majority of public schools lagging behind due to the slow delivery of important workbooks.
The University of the North West has denied the event where a student drowned is linked to any initiation process, saying it was a "social event".
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The Gauteng education department are dragging their feet to get pupils living in Thembelihle into schools in Lenasia.
Almost 50 children in Thembelihle are yet to begin schooling this year, as public schools in the neighbouring Lenasia won’t accept them.
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Improved curricula and better-qualified lecturers are needed to ramp up standards and perceptions of FET colleges.
The blame game over who is responsible for Limpopo schools’ textbook shortage continues, as the province locks horns with national government.
At the centre of the University of Johannesburg crisis is its vice-chancellor, Professor Ihron Rensburg. He spoke to <b>Bongani Nkosi</b>.