dysfunctional schools

EducationNadine Petersen, Sarah Gravett | 2017-01-20 00:00:00

COMMENTIn response to the recent release of the matric results, many education commentators implied that stronger investment in the foundation phase of schooling is likely to lead to more sustained improvement in school education and therefore to better matric results....

Education must get back to basics

EducationVuyisile Msila | 2016-05-13 00:00:00

Three weeks ago, statistician general Pali Lehohla released a report titled Vulnerable Groups Series I: The Social Profile of Youth,...

[Video]Tembisa holds government to account over sanitation

Multimedia | 2014-11-14 14:35:00

After government committed to fixing the sanitation crisis in Tembisa schools, Equal Education and residents conducted audits to monitor the progress.

Schools need to adapt and adopt

EducationRichard Hayward | 2011-08-11 00:00:00

Teachers and education officials can get angry when told to run schools as businesses. In some ways they have a right to be angry — in...

Crowded Moz classrooms drive kids to night school

NewsJohannes Myburgh | 2011-05-16 07:47:00

At 8pm Joana Charles waits outside her class for her history teacher at a school in Mozambique's capital, while hundreds of children run and play...

Limpopo, KZN home to SA's worst schools

EducationThabo Mohlala | 2010-09-29 09:56:00

Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are home to most of the country's dysfunctional schools, which recorded the worst pass rates in the...

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