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Gauteng Education Department is dragged to court after World Cup business venture goes pear-shaped.
Thabo Mohlala
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is facing a hefty lawsuit from Soweto Focus Point (SFP), a company formed to cash in on t...
Thabo Mohlala
Sci-Bono Discovery Centre, synonymous with science and technology school activities, has put together yet another engaging science exhibition to coincide with the Fifa World Cup hype sweeping the country.
Called Science of Soccer, t...
Parmosivea Bobby Soobrayan has been appointed director general of the department of basic education. His appointment comes at a time when there is immense political and public pressure for the education system to deliver good matric exam results. Soo...
The Development Bank of South Africa has donated half a million rand (R500 000) 'technical assistance grant" to the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to design an innovative educational leadership initiative.
To be called the Principal Network...
Congress of South African Students (Cosas) bowed to community pressure and called off its indefinite protest action, which saw learning at several schools in some parts of Soweto ground to a halt for almost two weeks. This followed the court appearan...
The management of the besieged Durban University of Technology, which experienced violent protest on its campus this week has decided to suspend all academic activities.
Acting Vice Chancellor, Nqabomzi Gawe said "after the meeting with Ministerial ...
A high-powered delegation led by Gauteng premier Nomvula Mokonyane, today visited the families of four learners killed yesterday afternoon in an illegal drag race on Protea North Boulevard in Soweto.
Gauteng education MEC Barbara Creecy and roads ...
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is inviting retired teachers and principals to a seminar this week in Midrand to see how it could use them to help in classrooms or in the general running of schools.
Barbara Creecy, the province's MEC for ed...
In its attempt to root out initiation ceremonies at schools, the Gauteng education department (GED) has issued letters to two teachers asking them to explain their role in initiation ceremonies at Parktown High School last year.
Charles Phahlane, G...
The premier of Mpumalanga province, David Mabuza, has announced a range of interventions to stop the rot within the provincial education department's examinations unit.
Delivering his state of the province speech this month in Nelspruit, Mabuza said...
Teacher unions reacted positively to finance minister, Pravin Gordhan 's
budget speech where he allocated R165-billion to education. The
breakdown of the budget indicates that Basic Education will get the biggest
piece of the pie with R127-billion; w...
Teacher unions have scoffed at the Democratic Alliance (DA)'s call to declare teaching an essential service until a national matric pass rate of 80% is achieved. If DA has its way it means teachers would be barred from embarking on any strike action,...
More than 97 000 learners, who failed their matric last year started with their supplementary examinations yesterday at various centres across the country, said the department of basic education (DoBE).
There are three categories of learners sittin...
Van Schaik, a prominent academic book publisher, has launched a campaign to pressure government to consider dropping Value Added Tax (VAT) on school textbooks. Called 'Abolish VAT on books', the campaign is using social networking site Facebook, as...
The Gauteng Department of Education (GDoE) this week acted quickly to shut down a school that has been operating illegally. According to a GDoE press statment, schools which operate under the names Vine Foundation Phase and Senior Primary School fro...
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