Poor pupils already benefit from quality education at former whites-only schools.
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/ 29 September 2010
Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are home to most of the country’s dysfunctional schools, which recorded the worst pass rates in the 2009 N
What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?
Pupils weren’t the only victim of the strike; teachers’ ethics also came under siege.
Comment period on new school syllabus ‘ridiculously short’, say experts.
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/ 23 September 2010
Governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015.
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/ 23 September 2010
A pioneering initiative to enable learners from poor backgrounds to attend South Africa’s top schools celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
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/ 21 September 2010
"Mud schools" in the Eastern Cape might have to wait until 2011 before their legal application to improve their infrastructure is heard in court
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/ 17 September 2010
The policeman who allegedly fired the shot that killed a grade 10 pupil in the Free State, was arrested after the ICD heard accounts of the death.
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/ 15 September 2010
Microsoft South Africa’s 2010 Innovative Teachers’ Awards competition is off to a flying start with the first group of winners announced.
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/ 15 September 2010
About 30 000 learners from grades nine to 12 will benefit from an initiative to help them make informed choices about a future career.
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/ 15 September 2010
This year’s Education Week Convention and Learning Expo will put the spotlight on technology as an innovative tool to enhance classroom teaching.
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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.
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/ 10 September 2010
Economists estimate that South Africa would be R550-billion better off if we could all read, writes <b>Cynthia Hugo</b>.
When pupils misbehave, how can a teacher get on with the job? <sb>Rachel Williams</b> visited a school in that brought in a behaviour expert.
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/ 10 September 2010
The often crippling costs entailed in educating a child can be met with a little planning and forethought, writes <b>Sameerah Karolia</b>.
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
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/ 10 September 2010
We need to respect and nurture our educators, writes <b>Graeme Bloch</b>.
In a digital age, the wonderful world of books is accessible to many more people, writes <b>Steve Vosloo</B>.
School sport, like other extra-curricular activities, is an important part of a child’s education and it should not be possible to negotiate it away.
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/ 10 September 2010
Teaching acumen, not pass rates, is what counts in a good school, writes <b>Alan Clarke</b>.
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/ 10 September 2010
With just a few weeks to go before the 2010 matric examinations, learners should be hard at work preparing for the challenge.
There are doubts that Angie Motshekga’s plans will yield the desired results, writes <b>Thabo Mohlala</b>.
Many mothers-to-be do not know that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol while they are pregnant is dangerous to their unborn baby.
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/ 9 September 2010
As teachers trickled back to work after their strike was suspended on Monday, unions looked to be heading for a showdown over the no work, no pay rule
Teachers hijacked by ‘narrow-minded daredevils, says expert.
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/ 2 September 2010
The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.
Signs of a split in unions’ response to government’s latest wage offer emerged on Tuesday, with Sadtu suggesting they could reject the offer.
With no end in sight to the crippling teacher strike, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has appealed to the public to assist matric learners.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently released the "Schooling 2025" blueprint. Have you read it? Did you comment on it?
Teaching acumen, not pass rates, is what counts in a good school, writes <b>Alan Clarke</b>.
The number of provinces in which matric preliminary exams have been postponed jumped to five on Thursday — from three on Wednesday.