Sadtu has accused the Department of Education of commercialising the free sanitary pads initiative in KwaZulu-Natal.
The party has urged the education department to ensure that food sold to pupils does not contain polony following Sunday’s announcement
Kwazi Mthethwa, spokesperson for education MEC Mthandeni Dlungwana, said he did not want to engage Sadtu in public on the allegations raised.
Understanding migration and age dynamics can address placement problems
Bursary scheme favours student teachers from rural areas
These were the state social worker’s words to a tearful mother after her five-year-old’s death
The state’s lawyer says that school sanitation can’t rest solely at the doorstep of education authorities
Michael Komape (5) drowned in a pit latrine at his school. Now his family wants justice
‘Little Michael’s story is the ultimate expression of what state capture means, even as our president denies that it is real’
The Department of Education in KZN has called on parents,communities and all other stakeholders to come together to combat school bullying.
The school has been stopped from disciplining the three and a racism probe will be conducted
The Gauteng dpt. of education removed the principal of the Soweto primary school where over 50 pupils were allegedly sexually assaulted by a guard.
Threats of another shutdown in Vuwani as matric exams near
This comes after several disruptions which took place at the school last week.
Scholars may go hungry next week amid confusion over the companies hired to feed them
It is a lost cause unless the department can show how the results will help educators
A ‘revolutionary’ learner pregnancy policy will enable teen moms to get back to school earlier.
The Kwazulu-Natal education department has set aside R50-million to fund the distribution of pads to schools in the four lowest quintiles.
Student organisations have threatened to revolt against a decrease in enrolments of first-year university students and the capping of college numbers.
It’s not the private sector that’s failing our poor. It’s badly executed public policy that’s at fault.
When the socks that need pulling up are absent, we must turn to leaders, the government, municipalities and citizens, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
A presentation at the South African Education Research Association 2014 conference finds that history textbooks misrepresent Nelson Mandela.
The basic education department will appeal a court ruling despite hundreds of pupils not having all their textbooks months into the school year.
Limpopo’s education department has expressed disappointment with "false claims" that undelivered textbooks were found in a warehouse in Fetakgomo.
The SA Human Rights Commission and rights activists have called for the eradication of pit latrines at schools after a child died in one this week.
The government has disputed Agang leader Mamphela Ramphele’s assertion that it has failed the youth by mismanaging the education system.
The province’s education minister will investigate a Bloemfontein school after allegations of racism and the display of an old SA flag there.
David Hlabane from the communications unit at the department of basic education responds to Marlene van Niekerk’s poem about the education minister.
The Democratic Alliance has refused to retract claims that some Limpopo schools are still missing textbooks.
The DA has challenged the education department to stick to its promise and deliver textbooks to Limpopo schools that faced shortages within 24-hours.
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.
So heavily has the government’s thumb been pressing its "spin at all costs" button it’s become too easy to lose sight of the human realities at stake