Textbooks

It’s best to teach pupils by the book

Article Faranaaz Veriava - 23 Nov 2015

Textbooks are essential when there's no culture of reading and teachers lack content knowledge.

R180m owed for school supplies

Article bogdan TagDiv - 5 Jun 2015

Publishers are out of pocket because the Eastern Cape education department flouted procurement rules.

Letters to the editor: April 10 to 16 2015

Article bogdan TagDiv - 10 Apr 2015

Readers voice their opinion on Qur'an rules, textbooks and statues.

Anatomy of a varsity textbook

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Apr 2015

It’s not just a lump of paper and ink, but a curated and researched stake in your future.

Pupils Speak Out: If you can’t give us textbooks, give us computers

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Mar 2015

The basic education minister should give pupils textbooks and technology, but in reality there's still a lack of these critical education aids.

No time to make decent textbooks

Article bogdan TagDiv - 28 Nov 2014

Publishers bemoan the impossibly tight deadlines imposed by the education department, which compromises academic quality.

Learning to live in a material world

Article Faranaaz Veriava & Comment Author - 23 Oct 2014

Expecting every pupil to receive a textbook isn’t prima-donna behaviour: universal access is vital.

Single textbook option slammed

Article bogdan TagDiv - 10 Oct 2014

Storm of opposition greets the government’s plan of ?‘one book per subject, per grade, per language’.

Students hurt by pricey textbooks

Article bogdan TagDiv - 3 Oct 2014

Ways to create cheaper learning materials are being probed, but there are stumbling blocks.

School textbooks present Mandela as ‘messianic myth’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 14 Aug 2014

A presentation at the South African Education Research Association 2014 conference finds that history textbooks misrepresent Nelson Mandela.

DA reveals ‘insulting’ figures on basic education dept

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Jul 2014

The DA has expressed shock over Medium Term Strategic Framework figures, which show that only 61% of pupils have access to required textbooks.

An odd allergy in the judiciary

Article bogdan TagDiv - 13 Jun 2014

The judiciary is quite right to be reluctant to tell government in its judgments what to do or what not to do.

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