During the 2023-24 financial year, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape only built one school each
The South African Democratic Teachers Union alleges schools are pressuring learners in grade 10 and upwards to drop maths to protect overall matric pass rates
An organisation says the devices reduce children’s ability to concentrate and learn effectively
The Zero Dropout Campaign has cautioned that the department of basic education should take heed of ‘early warning signs’ to assist learners
The Equal Education Law Centre has launched an application against the department over its failure to provide education to children affected by last year’s Usindiso fire
The advocacy group said despite highlighting infrastructure as one of its main pillars, the policy statement offered little in terms of commitments to fixing school infrastructure backlogs
The new basic education minister said she would not implement new policies or programmes without evidence of their value
The Democratic Alliance has objected to amendments in the Basic Education Law Amendment Bill, saying that it takes power away from parents, and gives it to the government
The Centre for Development and Enterprise has estimated that South Africa will need 456,000 teachers by 2025 for the country to offer quality education
Public hearings on amendments to the South African Schools Act are underway
Among other things, the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill calls for grade R to be the compulsory school-starting age
This comes as the department of basic education says that although there are challenges, public education is ‘thriving’
Collaboration is key to ensure that budgets actually serve people
The field of such NGOs is crowded but who and what are they holding to account and who are they mollycoddling?
South Africa has one of the most unequal school systems in the world. The gap in test scores between the top 20% and the rest is wider than in almost every other country
Advocacy group Equal Education says Minister Angie Motshekga and MECs must tell court why they shouldn’t be jailed or fined for contempt over failures of the national school nutrition programme during the pandemic
Avethandwa Nokhangela drowned at an Equal Education camp in the Eastern Cape, but the provincial department of education has distanced itself from the tragedy
The independent panel will make recommendations on restorative justice for Avethandwa Nokhangela’s family
Human Rights Watch warns that learners may take years to recover from the damage caused by school closures
The family of a drowned schoolgirl says NGO Equal Education must explain why it allowed learners to swim at a dangerous beach
with no lifeguards
Civil rights organisations want the department to find a permanent solution to the problem
The provincial department of education has called for a full investigation into the tragedy, while the organisation said an internal inquiry would be done by the Equal Education Law Centre.
Noncedo Madubedube was exposed to inequality in the school system when she was a girl. Now she is at the forefront of the battle for equality
Media houses holding each other to account is essential to a working democracy, but false claims serve only to undermine that goal
Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour
This is after the minister announced on Friday that there would be a rewrite of the two subjects that have been leaked to protect the integrity of the exams
When the hard lockdowns kicked in it was discovered that 3 000 schools didn’t have an adequate water supply. But this is not a new problem
About four in five learners in the country’s poorest schools rely on the one meal they receive at school, but they weren’t able to get it for more than four months, during which child hunger increased because of the pandemic
Equal Education wants the court to get the basic education department to feed all learners who qualify for the programme, including those who are not back at school
Ordinary citizens have not forgotten that schools were failing before the virus crisis
Technology has the potential to solve many of the country’s social problems such as electricity production and the eradication of pit latrines
NGOs play a critical role in advancing social change and transformation, but their current funding model needs to be addressed for them to make a sustainable impact in South Africa