Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on Tuesday blamed apartheid for the current state of the education system, despite 16 years under a new democratic regime.
More than half of South Africa’s provincial education departments are in an administrative and financial mess.
The national education system is a ”disaster”, the Afrikaans teachers’ union told the African National Congress recently.
The education department is to embark on an ambitious plan to roll out laptop computers to teachers.
The National Department of Education is to step into the Eastern Cape’s endlessly crisis-ridden school system.
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/ 30 December 2008
The uneven matric results show that despite a curriculum change, the SA education system is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era.
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/ 26 December 2008
The single most important legacy of OBE is another lost generation in South Africa’s poorest schools, writes Cornia Pretorius.
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/ 20 December 2008
The difficulties of Curriculum 2005 cannot but have left their mark on this year’s school leavers when they start their university studies next year.
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/ 15 October 2008
‘The current system is hampering economic growth and development’
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/ 11 September 2008
The reason why Kenyans are bad musicians is because we are out of touch with our own tastes and instincts.
South Africa’s education system underperformed and failed to support pupils in acquiring skills for learning, says Education Minister Naledi Pandor.
South Africa is embarking on a programme to increase its PhD output. This strategy is an important effort to boost the entire educational system.