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Teachers, pull yourselves together and prepare your lessons

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Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions
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Teacher development lost in the focus on matric results

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The development and investment in teachers shouldn't be an option but completely necessaty
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Good teacher graduates emerge when their studies combine theory and reality

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The University of Johannesburg has set up a school in Soweto to teach children and student teachers.
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Let’s support, not scare off, new teachers

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Inducting novice educators helps keep them in the profession and boosts learner outcomes.
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Good teachers are in short supply

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More people are training to be teachers but getting them into classrooms is fraught with problems.
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Policy isn’t a great part of our sums

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New proposals to train better maths teachers ignore many schools’ resource constraints.
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South Africa, learn to love your teachers

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They are the lifeblood of the education system, and supporting them will make all the difference.
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Social tech keeps teachers classy

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Good mentoring and networking forums can be used to help newly qualified teachers to adjust, writes Barbara Dale-Jones.
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Government’s new plan for student success

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The state’s teaching development grants to universities are being wholly rethought.
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Wanted: Help for new teachers

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Despite policy, too few schools have formal mentoring programmes for staff.
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Teacher education: grounds for cautious optimism

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Teacher education is getting better, but it will be a while before this becomes evident.
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Let us learn from maths mistakes

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Don’t dismiss criticism of ‘maths myths’ – the ability to learn trumps good exam results.
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Focus on FW de Klerk distracted attention from the troubling state of the nation

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Some political analysts say President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking too long to mend the country, others says it is the ANC itself that must be fixed
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National

Eastern Cape MEC orders graft investigation after two workers killed at troubled district municipality

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The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption
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South Africans stuck in China are desperate to escape coronavirus ‘prison’

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But the department of international relations and co-operation claims they are comfortable and taken care of 
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Press Releases

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Response to the report of the independent assessors

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VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.
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Press Releases

NWU student receives international award

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Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.
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Academic programme resumes at all campuses

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Lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials will all resume today as per specific academic timetables.
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Special Reports

Strategic social investments are a catalyst for social progress

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Barloworld Mbewu enables beneficiaries to move away from dependence on grant funding
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Special Reports

We all have a part to play to make South Africa work

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Powering societal progress demands partnerships between all stakeholders
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Special Reports

So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

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Do the research first; it will save money and time later
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Special Reports

Social entrepreneurship means business

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Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs
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Looking inwards

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Businesses are finding tangible ways to give back – but only because consumers demand it
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Educators need to stop playing victim and plan to teach in less favourable conditions

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