Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) has continued its professional development programme for Natural Sciences educators in the West Coast Education District of the Western Cape. This initiative is supported through a partnership between AK NPC, the Garden Cities Archway Foundation (GCAF), and the Western Cape Education Department (WCED). The second-term CAPS curriculum for Natural […]
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Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) recently held the first of four professional development sessions planned for 2025 directed at intersen (grades 4-7) and senior phase (grades 8 and 9) teachers of natural sciences at Luckhoff High School in Idas Valley, Stellenbosch. The training offered to intersen teachers was conducted on Friday 21 February while […]
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