The draft norms and standards for school infrastructure that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently gazetted could well be illegal.
Storm clouds loom over basic education’s "inadequate" standards and unmet deadlines, writes Victoria John.
Long-awaited draft school infrastructure standards are a shocking disappointment, educationists say.
The quality of results achieved by this year’s matrics remains a concern despite a 3.7 percentage point increase in the 2012 pass rate.
Horrendous hostel facilities, physical abuse by teachers and inconsistent recording of marks are some of the pupils’ complaints.
They’ve just won a major legal victory, but for Equal Education the battle has only begun.
Equal Education has said that Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has agreed to promulgate minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
A video by Equal Education succinctly summarises the crisis facing schools in South Africa, and their plans to take Angie Motshekga to court.
Despite the basic education department’s rattling, the treasury has confirmed the R7.2-billion for school infrastructure backlogs was reallocated.
Equal Education and the Treatment Action Campaign say giving condoms to schools won’t increase sexual activity but rather confront the gravity of sex.
NGO Equal Education says Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s statements submitted to court on basic education rights are wrong.
This week Equal Education marched through the streets of Tembisa to mobilise the community in its fight for fair and quality education.
Why has the role of a mobilised people not been mentioned in the ANC’s policy proposals on education, asks Graeme Bloch.
The ANC’s policy proposals for schools lack the necessary will to address the issues children face, argues Graeme Bloch.
Children are unlikely to excel in schools that
are falling to pieces.
The basic education department will challenge Equal Education in court over demands for minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Amid legal wrangles with Equal Education over SA’s education infrastructure, the Eastern Cape has opted to improve two "appallingly unsafe" schools.
Court action to enforce minimum norms for school buildings comes not a moment too soon.
Equal Education has filed papers against Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to establish minimum norms and standards for school infrastructure.
Education experts say that the 2011 matric results show a worrying trend of high attrition at school level and low performance in critical subjects.
The judges praised the role Equal Education plays in advocating systemic change and for showing how it could be achieved in practical, proactive ways.
Equal Education has threatened legal action against the department of basic education for not enacting regulations on school infrastructure.
The struggle for equal and quality education was a prominent part of the uprising that broke the back of apartheid in the 1980s.
Trade union federation Cosatu has thrown its weight behind an education NGO’s campaign to encourage learners to get to school on time.
More than 100 high school learners picketed outside Parliament on Thursday last week to draw attention to education crisis in the Eastern Cape.
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The lack of privacy at schools means that HIV tests on schoolchildren there must not proceed without proper planning and protection of human rights.
Western Cape slashes funding to poor schools rogramme despite experts’ warnings.
More than two months after delivering "yellow cards" to government education activists Equal Education are yet to receive any response.
Trade union federation Cosatu gets behind mounting grassroots action aimed at getting libraries into every public school in the country.