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The Western Cape education department says it has filled 477 teacher posts despite  announcing last year that 2 407 contract teachers would not be reappointed as a result of severe budget cuts.(Photo by Gallo Images / Sunday Times / Thuli Dlamini)

Western Cape fills 477 teacher posts after cutting 2 407 contract positions last year

The department says the reduction in teaching posts has increased the projected average teacher-to-learner ratio from 1:34.2 in 2024 to 1:36.7 this year

Advancing knowledge NPC preparing STEM education for the 4th industrial revolution

Advancing Knowledge NPC (AK NPC) has delivered a number of award-winning projects, programmes and SACE endorsed short courses in STEM education

The Western Cape education department says it will continue to honour a R1.2 billion tender awarded by the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) even after a forensic report uncovered irregularities.
(Ezekiel Kenkana/GroundUp)

Western Cape education department refutes R1.2bn tender irregularities

The State Information Technology Agency has recommended an investigation into the tender awarded to Blue Network Consortium

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Western Cape education says no teacher retrenchments despite loss of 2,400 jobs due to budget cuts

The department’s R2.5 billion budget cut, impacting administration, curriculum, and infrastructure, leaves it with a R3.8 billion shortfall over the next three years

Members of the Cape Town Metro Police search a house as part of a search-and-seizure operation for drugs and weapons, in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. (File photo by RODGER BOSCH / AFP)

Gang threats lead to school absenteeism and business closures in Cape township

A letter, apparently written by gangsters in Philippi, warns they will kill Somalis if extortion fees are paid to their rivals

Three new Science Teaching & Learning Centres open to support STEM education at Cape Town schools

More than 100 TLCs have been constructed at Western Cape schools since 2011

Hands-on inquiry-based training offered to grades 8 and 9 natural sciences teachers 

They learned how to perform simple experiments that can easily be transferred to their daily natural science classes

Advancing Knowledge NPC’s inquiry-based science education training for InterSen (grades 4-7) Natural Science teachers

The first step is walking teachers through the inquiry-based approach to teaching science and improving their pedagogic skills and content knowledge

Faranaaz Fisher and Farinaas Lakay are among a group of backyarders who moved onto land earmarked for the Western Cape Education Department in Heideveld in 2018. Photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana

Court showdown over Cape Flats evictions

People living in about 110 informal structures and Wendy houses at Cathkin Village informal settlement in Heideveld are facing eviction

The opening of Science TLC at Trafalgar Secondary: Salwa Southgate (principal), John Matthews (CEO Garden Cities), Professor Shaheed Hartley (Director AK NPC), Siraj Desai (Retired High Court Judge), Igshaan Higgins (Cape Heritage Curator).

Advancing Knowledge NPC preparing STEM Education for the fourth industrial revolution

Science Teaching and Learning Centres Programme at Cape schools reaches its 100th milestone

The government estimates between 40 000 and 600 000 children with disabilities do not go to school at all. (David Harrison)

Too many disabled children still fall through schooling gaps

Inclusive strategies need to be implemented in South Africa so that people living with disabilities like autism can live meaningful, productive lives

Apply now for the 2023 school year, Western Cape education department urges parents

Parents and guardians have four days left to apply for 2023 places for their children at schools in the province

Good idea: Welwitschia Primary School has implemented a successful waste management project. (GrowZA)

Western Cape schools benefit from zero waste project

The initiative provides schools with a toolkit to reduce the waste they send to landfills by recycling more effectively

W. Cape education dept clarifies school rape incident

The Western Cape education department responds to an article in the Mail & Guardian

Learners at the high school held a peaceful protest on Wednesday morning ‘in support of the educator’ and they stated that the ‘incident was not race related’ according to the statement.

Cape Town school to decide on way forward following video of teacher slapping pupil

The education department has asked the public not to conclude that the incident is racially motivated until the investigation has been completed

Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer.

Equal Education meets with WC education dept over sexual harassment claims

The organisation says it now has three separate processes currently running to investigate allegations of sexual harassment

Previously scientists had shown that chameleons are also able to change their colour with the migration of melanin in and out of cells

SCA ruling: Single parents don’t need partners’ consent for fees exemptions

In a judgment handed down in September 2016, the High Court recognised the burden single mothers face when providing an education to their children.

It’s Africa’s turn to go to the moon.

Number of pupils awaiting placement in Gauteng schools reduced by 20 000

Those anxiously waiting to be placed at schools include 7 092 pupils whose parents applied online.

Sans Souci Girls’ High allowed discrimination, says Western Cape education department

The department launched a probe into the school’s code of conduct and hair policy on September 1.

Gang vigilantism has plagued the Social Justice Coalition

Manenberg gang violence: ‘Our rights have been taken away’

Manenberg pupils and teachers have been caught in the middle of wars between gangs, putting their education, jobs and lives at risk.