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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...
Teacher Reporter
Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, Fatima Chohan, is appealing to the public to make written submissions on issues affecting quality outcomes in primary and secondary schools.
She explains that since 1994, "mu...
Teacher reporter
Johannesburg has been awarded the illustrious title of host city for this year's World Maths Day on 3 March.
World Maths Day was launched in March 2007 with the aim of combining education and internet use to unite school learners ...
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga and deciding that the national department will take over the administration of its exams. Stupidity and corruption among education o...
The leaking of five matric papers in Mpumalanga had been the only proven hiccup marring the national senior certificate examination, education department chief director Nkosinathi Sishi said on Friday.
"Leaking is considered the ultimate sin," Sishi...
Four thousand learners, teachers and parents marched from Salt River to the Cape Town city centre recently calling for the establishment of a library at every school in South Africa.
A staggering 93% of schools do not have functioning libraries,...
A teacher in rural Lesotho has won plaudits for her project which uses Information and communication technologies (ICT) to educate learners and the community about indigenous plants.
Moliehi Sekese, from Mamoeketsi Primary School situated 15 kilomet...
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