There are not enough decent mid-level jobs to tempt more young South Africans into vocational training, a Wits seminar has heard.
A novel scheme is seeing business executives partnering with principals to beef up tuition.
A nonprofit school says traditional teaching models are outdated: pupils learn better if the content is relevant and speaks to them interactively.
Indian national Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai have won the 2014 Nobel Peace prize for advocating children’s rights.
While innovation is crucial to a country’s competitiveness, it is not the only factor and the quality of education is still a concern, a survey found.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme can’t carry the burden alone, so the portfolio committee on higher education wants business to pitch in.
Private schools foster gender bias, says an international report, despite SA studies revealing that there are more girls than boys in private schools.
We are breeding a nation of angry underachievers, yet we come from a generation of overachievers. Citizens now need to step up to the education plate.
The department says the report’s research was not based on tests or assessments by pupils, but on interviews with business executives.
Teen moms shouldn’t be stigmatised; they should be encouraged to finish school, writes University of KwaZulu-Natal researcher Samantha Willan.
Our journey to freedom continues: 20 years after democracy, those who can’t read or write are locked in a sinister struggle.
A number of NGOs have pointed out that children’s rights to education and healthcare are not considered an election issue by parties, but should be.
Learners have hundreds of educational apps at their fingertips, but how do parents choose the right ones for their children? Here are some guidelines.
Limpopo’s education department has expressed disappointment with "false claims" that undelivered textbooks were found in a warehouse in Fetakgomo.
Trying to lecture students on respecting people’s rights will only get you so far. They need experiential human rights education.
Treasury will increase funds to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme, which is likely to help more than 500 000 students per year.
Solar-powered classrooms have evolved from an experiment into the next big thing in educational initiatives by IT giants like Samsung and Dell.
Basic education director general Bobby Soobrayan has been found not guilty of wrongdoing, says department spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi.
The ANC election manifesto has big, ambitious ideas for education, but can the party deliver on them?
From the amount of pupils who will make it past grade 10 to the matric pass rate, here are 10 things you might not have known about education in SA.
Eastern Cape teachers may finally be paid and posts filled now that Legal Resources Centre has filed a class action lawsuit against the government.
There was much tears and excitement as South African pupils returned to school for the start of the new year.
Progress in healthcare and education indicates that South Africans’ lives have improved, writes Busani Ngcaweni from the deputy president’s office.
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Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.
The South African Institute of Race Relations says the privatisation of the health and education sectors is the solution to the country’s problems.
Pupils in Limpopo will have textbooks in time for the 2014 academic year, says education MEC Dikeledi Magadzi.
The achievements of learners are still strongly (and sadly) linked to the circumstances of their birth, writes Annette Lovemore.
The allocation to school infrastructure in the mid-term budget is inadequate, writes David Macfarlane.
CUT get involved in the SB13 Southern Africa conference.
Angie Motshekga and Mamphela Ramphele have clashed again after the Agang SA leader’s fresh comments that education under apartheid was better in SA.
The president has mastered the art of quietly surprising those who snipe at his lack of education.
Comment by Dr Herman J van Vuuren.