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/ 13 October 2010
To celebrate 10 years of success the Takalani Sesame muppets will be conducting a tour of the country.
Well Worn, an interactive theatre company, has produced an educational play to help learners and teachers deal with mounting environmental problems.
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The DBSA has donated half a million rand ‘technical assistance grant" to the UJ to design an nnovative educational leadership initiative.
Cosas bowed to community pressure and called off its protest action in Soweto.
The management of the besieged Durban University of Technology, which experienced violent protest on its campus this week has decided to suspend all academic activities.
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is inviting retired teachers and principals to a seminar this week in Midrand to see how it could use them to help in classrooms or in the general running of schools.
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/ 25 February 2010
The premier of Mpumalanga province, David Mabuza, has announced a range of interventions to stop the rot within the provincial education department’s examinations unit.
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/ 11 November 2009
A teacher in rural Lesotho has won plaudits for her project which uses Information and communication technologies (ICT) to educate learners and the community about indigenous plants.
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/ 10 November 2009
The department of education is pushing ahead with plans to expand the no-fees school programme in a move that has drawn mixed reactions by school governing body organisations.
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With the end of the 2009 school year in sight, August and September have been set aside for parents to enrol their children in schools for the 2010 academic year.
Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest place on Earth. It is almost entirely covered in ice. The lowest temperature measured was -88ºC. In the interior, wind speeds reach up to 350 km/h. The annual rainfall is about 50mm inland and 35mm along the coast (South Africa’s average annual rainfall is 464mm, and the world average is 857mm). During summer, Antarctica has 24-hour days and no nights, whereas in winter, there are 24-hour nights and the sun never rises for about one month.
The power of technology as an educational tool was on display at the iLife Competition 2008 awards prize-giving held on Thursday night.
Adult education is to receive a shot in the arm with the release of a new programme that combines multimedia technology with mother-tongue learning to improve literacy and other learning skills.
Work has stopped at the department of education’s headquarters in Pretoria, after a fire broke out in the 123 Schoeman Street premises on Thursday.
A study of the supply and demand for teachers in the Western Cape has found that while 95% of the province’s educators are qualified according to current requirements many of them have reduced capacity to teach newer or ‘specialized’ subjects.
Five educators have been recognised for their contribution to improving learning in South African schools through the use of technology at the annual Innovative Teachers’ Forum Awards held in Johannesburg this week.
A group of 20 teachers will gather in Johannesburg today as the winner of the Innovative Teachers Forum Awards is announced, to honour educators who use technology to improve teaching and learning.
The department of basic education has called for comments to improve the national curriculum from grade four to 12.
0While the majority of learners around the country start their mid-year holidays today, a group of pupils will be gathering for intensive science and maths development camps.
Learners who passed the 2008 National Senior Certificate (NSC) will face a further wait to obtain their certificates following a change to the design format of the document.
Six primary school learners from the Eastern Cape will be heading to San Francisco in the United States later this year to collect their prizes for winning the Think Quest Narrative competition, a web-based educational competition for learners from around the world.
A Mpumalanga schoolgirl has taken top honours in a national public speaking competition.
Songstress Simphiwe Dana and poet Lebo Mashile are among the inspirational figures who have thrown their weight behind the Big Read campaign, which is being launched in South Africa on June 16.
Research suggests that South Africa’s HIV epidemic has levelled off, with a noted decline in new infections among teenagers aged 15 to 19.
Education has been highlighted as a key priority for the new government under President Jacob Zuma, he said today.
June is an important month in the South African school calendar, with the election of school governing body (SGB) representatives scheduled to take place.
For little more than the cost of a loaf of bread, a leading technology group believes it can provide a South African learner with the hardware, software and the know-how to learn more effectively.
The Gauteng department of education has appointed an auditing firm to ensure sure all of its employees are on the Persal system, used for administering salaries, after it emerged that more than 200 grade R teachers have not been paid for two months.