Teachers and pupils have a responsibility to animate a caring ethos in their institutions.
		
	 
	
		
		Ideas on how to create caring schools that build self-esteem.
		
	 
	
		
		In part three of our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> looks at what schools should do about bullying.
		
	 
	
		
		In this second article in our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> gives valuable tips on how to eradicate a worldwide scourge.
		
	 
	
		
		Bullying is an ongoing problem in schools and in society. This month we start a series in which we explore what bullying is and how to deal with it.
		
	 
	
		
		<b>Mark Potterton</b> tackles a subject that makes both parents and educators hot under the collar.
		
	 
	
		
			
				
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			 / 30 October 2009
			
		
		Jonathan Jansen’s ‘pardoning’ of four University of the Free State students seems to run counter to some ideas in his groundbreaking book.
		
	 
	
		
		OPENING THE DOORS OF LEARNING: CHANGING SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA by Pam Christie
		
	 
	
		
		PRIMARY EDUCATION IN CRISIS: Why South African schoolchildren underachieve in reading and mathematics by Brahm Fleisch
		
	 
	
		
			
				
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			 / 11 February 2008
			
		
		Outdated and contaminated with apartheid ideology, the South African school curriculum had to be reformed after 1994. A new curriculum that promoted and upheld the values of the Constitution was needed – one we could all own and of which we all could be proud.