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Things are not well at all in classrooms.
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There is a way to weed out bullying

Teachers and pupils have a responsibility to animate a caring ethos in their institutions.

Nip bullying in the bud

Ideas on how to create caring schools that build self-esteem.

Teaching bullies a lesson

In part three of our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> looks at what schools should do about bullying.

How to beat the bullies

How to beat the bullies

In this second article in our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> gives valuable tips on how to eradicate a worldwide scourge.

Bullying affects family life

Bullying affects family life

Bullying is an ongoing problem in schools and in society. This month we start a series in which we explore what bullying is and how to deal with it.

Unique vs uniform

Unique vs uniform

<b>Mark Potterton</b> tackles a subject that makes both parents and educators hot under the collar.

Breaking the blood knot

Jonathan Jansen’s ‘pardoning’ of four University of the Free State students seems to run counter to some ideas in his groundbreaking book.

Rising above circumstance

OPENING THE DOORS OF LEARNING: CHANGING SCHOOLS IN SOUTH AFRICA by Pam Christie

The reason for inequality

PRIMARY EDUCATION IN CRISIS: Why South African schoolchildren underachieve in reading and mathematics by Brahm Fleisch

A curriculum that failed

Outdated and contaminated with apartheid ideology, the South African school curriculum had to be reformed after 1994. A new curriculum that promoted and upheld the values of the…