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Good example: The Maoris’ approach enables young offenders to reintegrate into their communities.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

Sparing the rod, rebuilding the child

New approaches to school discipline are focusing on empathy over enmity.

  • Barbara Dale Jones
6 min read
Public school teachers block Reforma Avenue, near Senate chambers, in Mexico City on Tuesday. (Eduardo Verdugo, AP)
SAPA AP

Mexico teachers block lawmakers from congress

Teachers in Mexico have taken to the streets in protest over a new education overhaul in the country.

  • Sapa Ap
1 min read
GANG VIOLENCE

Fourteen Cape Town schools to close after surge in gang violence

The Western Cape education department will close schools in Manenberg for two days to protect teachers and pupils from ongoing gang violence.

  • Victoria John
2 min read
INDIA

Fearful Indian school children refuse free meals after deaths

School children have been dumping the meals they get as part of a school feeding scheme in fear of poisoning after 22 children died on Tuesday.

  • Sapa Afp
3 min read
The Congress of South African Students says Sadtu must put learners first ahead of its ‘narrow and selfish interests’.
SAPA

Western Cape education officials plan placements

The Western Cape education department says pupils whose schools have closed will be moved to facilities with better opportunities.

  • Sapa
2 min read
Zonnebloem Nest Senior School pupils
GLYNNIS UNDERHILL

Possible closure angers school

Teachers and education officials in the Western Cape are at odds over the performance level of a school that is facing possible closure.

  • Glynnis Underhill
6 min read
Level the field and let the pupils choose
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Level the field and let the pupils choose

What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?

  • David Macfarlane
4 min read