Textbooks

Learning materials are a basic yet vital resource essential to building an equal education system

Textbooks are essential when there’s no culture of reading and teachers lack content knowledge.

Publishers are out of pocket because the Eastern Cape education department flouted procurement rules.

Readers voice their opinion on Qur’an rules, textbooks and statues.

It’s not just a lump of paper and ink, but a curated and researched stake in your future.

The basic education minister should give pupils textbooks and technology, but in reality there’s still a lack of these critical education aids.

Publishers bemoan the impossibly tight deadlines imposed by the education department, which compromises academic quality.

Expecting every pupil to receive a textbook isn’t prima-donna behaviour: universal access is vital.

Storm of opposition greets the government’s plan of ?‘one book per subject, per grade, per language’.

Ways to create cheaper learning materials are being probed, but there are stumbling blocks.

A presentation at the South African Education Research Association 2014 conference finds that history textbooks misrepresent Nelson Mandela.

The DA has expressed shock over Medium Term Strategic Framework figures, which show that only 61% of pupils have access to required textbooks.

The judiciary is quite right to be reluctant to tell government in its judgments what to do or what not to do.

The basic education department will appeal a court ruling despite hundreds of pupils not having all their textbooks months into the school year.

The recent Limpopo textbook judgment could have been more helpful on the question of relief for the violation of rights.