The Teacher Reporter

Thobile Ntola has been elected as the president of the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union.

Adjudication for the eighth annual National Teachers Awards has just been completed, with the winners due to be announced on October 29.

In search of answers to this question the Western Cape education department decided to acknowledge schools that have managed to improve the literacy and numeracy skills of primary school learners.

Metropolitan Raucall, a school for previously disadvantaged learners, has been awarded a prestigious Stevie Award, the only global award that honours outstanding performance in business.

A lucrative competition has been launched to reward entrepreneurial education programmes across the African continent.

Grade 12 learners around the country are gearing up for the National Senior Certificate examinations which get underway on October 29. The exams will run for five weeks and this year will be the first time that learners from all nine provinces write the standardised tests. The release date for the results will be made public at a later date.

A government school in the heart of rural Eastern Cape is showing its big-city cousins across the country how to save energy, reduce carbon emissions and improve the quality of learning through the use of technology.

September is national heart awareness month and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa (HSFSA) hopes to use this opportunity to increase awareness of cardiovascular disease.

The Education Law Amendment Act (Act 31 of 2007), which was signed into law at the end of last year, has implications for the principals of public schools.

Learners who want lasting and relevant skills at school are opting for accounting and, thanks to educational software, they are mastering the subject with greater ease.

Some of the world’s leading innovators and scientists will gather at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from September 15 to 17 for the International Science, Innovation and Technology exhibition (Insite).

Thutong is a free and open resource for anyone who is interested in the South African curriculum, including parents/guardians, education specialists and the wider community

Ismael Sibeko from IM Manchu in Balfour has won the Mpumalanga leg of a national poetry campaign to oppose racism and xenophobia.

A new payment structure for examiners, moderators and editors involved in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exam has been published in the Government Gazette.

The financial literacy skills of South Africa’s youth are set to get a boost with the launch of Savings Month 2008 and the start of the Teach Children to Save South Africa (TCTS SA) initiative in July.

A learner from Dinwiddie High in Germiston was named the Gauteng winner in a national poetry campaign to oppose racism and xenophobia.

Moipone Academy will host an awareness campaign about research activities in Antarctica at Khayalothando Hall in Tembisa during July.

With inflation and interest rates on the rise and stock markets tumbling, many consumers are feeling the pinch of higher debt repayments.

Researchers at the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released a spelling game in all 11 official South African languages. The game, OpenSpell, can be localised for additional languages.

Every day 3 000 units of blood are transfused to patients in dire need of it. If it was not for donors who give their time and blood, blood transfusions in South Africa would not exist.

The Education Laws Amendment Bill, passed by Parliament at the end of last year, opens the door for schools to start testing learners for drugs. And, with drug addiction and drug-related violence on the increase in South Africa and younger children being targeted by drug dealers, it has been greeted by many parents and educators as a welcome move by government to tackle a harrowing problem at grassroots level.

The advent of winter will bring an array of influenza viruses. The viruses change continually, which means your body cannot build up an automatic immunity against the flu.

Juno shows teenage pregnancy as being pretty easy with minimal impact on a young girl’s life and her family. Juno can be admired for being brave and her parents for handling their daughter’s pregnancy calmly, supporting­ her rather than condemning her.

Fundisa is about saving for a child’s ongoing education. It is as easy as these questions and answers show

Having come from humble beginnings and with just a standard three (grade five) to her name, Rebecca Malope knows the importance of education – and how it can change your life.

A new education-based website offers schools, parents and pupils a cost-effective and convenient online method of buying and selling new and old textbooks, sports equipment, musical instruments and other equipment.

The KwaZulu-Natal department of education has come up with strategies to improve education infrastructure in the province.