Unresolved tensions between students and management at UJ erupted on Friday at the university’s launch of its Soweto campus.
An institute for race studies has been set up opposite the notorious Reitz residence on UFS, writes <b>Kamogelo Seekoei</b>.
Parents are furious as children continue to be denied places at schools, writes <b>Kamogelo Seekoei</b>.
Auditor general slams student financial aid scheme that will manage new R1,5-billion allocation.
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/ 14 January 2011
Neither the ANC nor the government has any time frame in mind for the implementation of the goal of free education.
Specialists are divided on the question of whether so unexpected and so huge an improvement in the matric pass rate is both believable and reliable.
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/ 17 December 2010
Trying to build a nation on second languages will destroy developmental goals and SA should strive for mother tongue education.
Diverse campus lifestyles in the US inspire Kovsies to become ‘cohorts of change’.
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/ 3 December 2010
Education and marginalisation was the major theme at the recent Public Participation in Education Network conference in Johannesburg.
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/ 30 November 2010
Further research into the drop out rates of disabled children in South Africa is needed as these children and the youth are highly vulnerable.
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/ 30 November 2010
The Teddy Bear Clinic and Resources aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect filed papers to challenge anomalies in the Sexual Offences Act.
Parents kept in the dark about government policy on payments and exemptions.
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/ 25 November 2010
The destruction of matric scripts in Cape Town has brought into focus what measures exist to compensate pupils when their scripts are lost.
The continent’s reliance on biomass has lethal results, report says.
Socioeconomic background makes all the difference when it comes to matric exams.
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/ 22 October 2010
Rural development conference hears how the area can become South Africa’s bread basket.
First-year maths and science students perform worse than their predecessors.
Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi this week warned that there is ‘no hope and no future’ for many of South Africa’s learners.
The ministers of health and higher education held a press briefing on Thursday to explain remarks by Julius Malema regarding Medunsa.
The congress of Cosatu’s teachers’ union, Sadtu, broke down in pandemonium on Thursday after delegates booed and heckled the ANC’s Gwede Mantashe.
Community members attending the Annual Rural Development Conference at WSU say they always feel neglected by government — except at election time.
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/ 29 September 2010
Walter Sisulu University will establish a faculty of agriculture and rural development by 2012, said Professor Noluthando Luswazi this week.
Notorious for racist videos, the University of the Free State is sending students to the United States for leadership training.
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/ 14 September 2010
Cosas has vowed to make the country “ungovernable” if the education department does not scrap matric prelim exams.
Student protests at the University of KwaZulu-Natal escalated as rumours of plans to privatise residences swept through the university’s campuses.
Teachers hijacked by ‘narrow-minded daredevils, says expert.
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/ 3 September 2010
Wildly varying postponements of matric prelim exams across the country are playing havoc with learner’s preparations for the final exam.
As pupils taught their peers in the absence of striking teachers, the basic education department claimed it would support schools during the strike.
No philosophy department in the country is doing more to train black postgraduates than UJ, says Professor Thaddeus Metz, head of the department.
Following violent student protests and police action at UJ on Wednesday, the university applied for an urgent court order to prevent further protests.
This week’s teacher action highlights the disparities in South African society.
Cosatu has vowed to push ahead with its public service strike next week, despite the government revising its pay offer to 7%.