There is no doubt that language is highly value-laden. In South Africa this is compounded by the imperative for social transformation and redress of the inequities of the past.…

The importance of leadership in schools is widely recognised. Research studies globally support this and also show that of even greater importance is the role of the school…

The Learning Channel’s Top Class reality television programme, on its return visits to the 10 schools that were selected by the national department of education five weeks later,…

Those who follow the Learning Channel’s Top Class programme might agree that the series would have done well to remember the words of former British prime minister, Harold…

The 10 secondary schools in the Learning Channel’s Top Class reality programme have many problems in common – irrespective of whether they are in rural or urban areas. The major…

Mike, as he is affectionately called, inscribed his name in canoeing records when he and Martin Dreyer won the famous and gruelling Stihl Non-Stop Dusi Canoeing Marathon. The…

The viewers of SABC1 and Learning Channel’s Top Class programme may have observed the same reactions as I did when watching the CEOs in the schools that they are helping to turn…

Are the problems of, and for, school leadership in this country the same as those for other countries striving for "world-class" education provision? And, if some of those…