The TVET colleges’ appalling results on vocational studies could jeopardise the three-stream model’s objectives
These schools cater for the poorest urban learners but they are battling to keep their doors open.
The Free State education department and a special needs school have failed to enrol a pupil
in class despite a court ordering them to do so
The lockdown has exposed gross inequalities in education and society, but also gives us the opportunity to find new solutions
The Amnesty International report found that the South African government continues to miss its own education upgrading targets
The basic education department’s task team says a deeper connection to the subject must be nurtured
The court found Mohlouoa “Blacky” Seoe guilty of bribing Lioma in order to influence a tender for learning materials
"About 130 000 learners from other provinces and 2 000 learners from other countries have relocated to the Western Cape"
The two men believed to have taken part in former deputy minister of higher education Mduduzi Manana’s assault on three women will plead guilty.
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Religious and nonprofit groups play an important role in providing food to students, but sometimes this is not enough.
Education authorities face R1.5bn worth of claims, with Limpopo being the worst culprit.
The basic education department owed R28-million to Eastern Cape teachers, resulting in its assets being attached.
Sadtu has vowed to strike if the education department doesn’t address what the union’s long-standing issues, such as unpaid salaries.
Education prospects are looking grim for South Africa’s school pupils, and government is now compelled to respond. What is its diagnosis?
We speak to our education reporter about her experience in the Eastern Cape where too few teachers and appalling toilets seem to have become the norm.
A sobering World Bank report has found that poor South African kids are unlikely to escape poverty due to persistent social and economic inequalities.
Limpopo’s education minister Dickson Masemola says it is "unfair" that he is being blamed for the Limpopo textbook saga.
Apartheid will not end and black people will not have real freedom until free and high quality education becomes a reality, says Zwelinzima Vavi.
Below is a shortened version of the Budget Speech presented by MEC Senzo Mchunu on behalf of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education.
Enrolment numbers alone do not reveal whether equitable access to university has improved.
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/ 14 September 2009
The Democratic Alliance has given Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga low marks for her management of the portfolio.
The national Education Department is proposing a five-week long school break during the 2010 Soccer World Cup to avoid pupil and teacher absenteeism and a chaotic transport system, a media report said on Wednesday. A proposed school calendar for South African public schools has been gazetted and posted on the department’s website.
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/ 25 February 2008
A ”significant” number of children drop out of the schooling system after grade nine, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said in Cape Town on Monday. ”South Africa is doing very well with respect to enrolment of children up to grade nine, but a significant number drop out at that point,” she told journalists during a Council of Education Ministers meeting.
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/ 20 February 2008
About 10 students from the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) were arrested on Wednesday following a protest that turned violent, said Pretoria police. Captain Dumisani Ndlazi said the 10, who were part of a protesting group, were arrested at the university’s main campus in Pretoria West.
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/ 13 February 2008
At least 284 schools in the greater Durban region owe the eThekwini Water Department over R5-million for unpaid water and electricity. eThekwini water and sanitation head, Neil Macleod, said none of the schools in question had their water or electricity supply disconnected because of the arrears.
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/ 31 January 2008
Dozens of police officers and members of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union converged at a Durban school on Thursday, 48 hours after a former pupil went into the school and threatened teachers and pupils with a gun. The matter was only reported to police on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 15 January 2008
Parents, teachers and pupils staged a protest on Tuesday against the admission policy of the Kismet Combined Secondary school in Colridge near Vryburg in the North West. South African Democratic Teachers’ Union secretary Joe Molipa said the school had increased its fees by 37% in order to deny poor pupils enrolment.
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/ 11 January 2008
Three days into the school year and Gauteng’s teenagers are already hanging around on street corners rather than in class. Bunking classes and smoking outside buildings are a common problem in some high schools, and truancy rates are high in many disadvantaged areas.
There were about 1 000 fewer teachers in North West province at the opening of schools on Wednesday as the provincial education department had not renewed their contracts, a teachers’ union claimed. But an education department spokesperson said no teacher shortages are expected in North West.
The number of fatalities on South African roads over the festive season decreased by 13,26%, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Tuesday. He was releasing the Arrive Alive campaign’s figures for the holiday season from December 1 to January 6. The number of people killed on the roads had declined to 1Â 419.
The weeding out of apparent corruption in the Gauteng education department was to blame for textbook order delays for the 2008 school year, Gauteng provincial minister of education Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. ”We had our own internal challenges,” she said at a media briefing in central Johannesburg about the department’s readiness for 2008.
Grade 12 pupils from at least four schools in Mpumalanga are caught up in confusion as to whether or not they have passed their matric exams, the Sowetan reported on Wednesday. Instead of joining the throng of those who passed, Thokozani Hlatshwayo and several of his classmates were left ”confused and traumatised”.