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State opposes mud schools’ court bid
Education authorities will oppose a court challenge by impoverished schools in the Eastern Cape to improve their infrastructure.
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Education yellow cards could go red
More than two months after delivering "yellow cards" to government education activists Equal Education are yet to receive any response.
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School districts under scrutiny at Education Week
The role of school district officers was one of the critical issues under the spotlight at the Education Week Convention in Ekurhuleni this week.
Don’t fix what ain’t broke
Poor pupils already benefit from quality education at former whites-only schools.
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Limpopo, KZN home to SA’s worst schools
Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape are home to most of the country’s dysfunctional schools, which recorded the worst pass rates in the 2009 N
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)?
Strike an education in corruptibility
Pupils weren’t the only victim of the strike; teachers’ ethics also came under siege.
New syllabus is ‘flawed’
Comment period on new school syllabus ‘ridiculously short’, say experts.
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Let’s keep our promise to the world’s children
Governments are on the brink of breaking a Millennium Development Goal promise of a decent quality basic education for all by 2015.
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A decade of success
A pioneering initiative to enable learners from poor backgrounds to attend South Africa’s top schools celebrates its 10th anniversary this month.
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‘Mud schools’ wait on state response
"Mud schools" in the Eastern Cape might have to wait until 2011 before their legal application to improve their infrastructure is heard in court
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Officer arrested as Cosas digs in on prelims
The policeman who allegedly fired the shot that killed a grade 10 pupil in the Free State, was arrested after the ICD heard accounts of the death.
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Top teacher geeks
Microsoft South Africa’s 2010 Innovative Teachers’ Awards competition is off to a flying start with the first group of winners announced.
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Choosing the right path
About 30 000 learners from grades nine to 12 will benefit from an initiative to help them make informed choices about a future career.
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Convention will highlight technology
This year’s Education Week Convention and Learning Expo will put the spotlight on technology as an innovative tool to enhance classroom teaching.
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Cosas: ‘Minister will run’ if prelims aren’t scrapped
Cosas has vowed to make the country “ungovernable” if the education department does not scrap matric prelim exams.
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Every child matters
Economists estimate that South Africa would be R550-billion better off if we could all read, writes <b>Cynthia Hugo</b>.
Deal with bad behaviour — without rage
When pupils misbehave, how can a teacher get on with the job? <sb>Rachel Williams</b> visited a school in that brought in a behaviour expert.
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Financing your child’s education
The often crippling costs entailed in educating a child can be met with a little planning and forethought, writes <b>Sameerah Karolia</b>.
Teaching for the future
To equip children for the workplace in the 21st century, conventional teaching must give way to the use of technology.
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In praise of our teachers
We need to respect and nurture our educators, writes <b>Graeme Bloch</b>.
Beyond the printed word
In a digital age, the wonderful world of books is accessible to many more people, writes <b>Steve Vosloo</B>.
The value of school sport
School sport, like other extra-curricular activities, is an important part of a child’s education and it should not be possible to negotiate it away.
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Best school? It’s the teachers who count
Teaching acumen, not pass rates, is what counts in a good school, writes <b>Alan Clarke</b>.
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Tackle matric successfully
With just a few weeks to go before the 2010 matric examinations, learners should be hard at work preparing for the challenge.
School districts’ turnaround battle
There are doubts that Angie Motshekga’s plans will yield the desired results, writes <b>Thabo Mohlala</b>.
Protect your baby
Many mothers-to-be do not know that drinking excessive amounts of alcohol while they are pregnant is dangerous to their unborn baby.
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Teacher strike over, but new pay row looms
As teachers trickled back to work after their strike was suspended on Monday, unions looked to be heading for a showdown over the no work, no pay rule
‘Union lords’, not idealists, running show at Sadtu
Teachers hijacked by ‘narrow-minded daredevils, says expert.
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Parents: Teachers’ strike a ‘tragedy’
The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.
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Teachers divided on govt’s latest wage offer
Signs of a split in unions’ response to government’s latest wage offer emerged on Tuesday, with Sadtu suggesting they could reject the offer.
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Motshekga: We need the public’s help
With no end in sight to the crippling teacher strike, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has appealed to the public to assist matric learners.
