It’s back to school

After a lengthy five-week holiday, pupils may struggle to slip back into their early morning rising routine, but they should not struggle with exam preparations.

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Invest in our children, says Zuma

President Jacob Zuma read fellow leaders a lesson before heading out with them to Sunday’s World Cup final.
Just hours before the Dutch-Spanish final, Zuma convened leaders from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Togo, Mozambique, the Netherlands and neighbouring Zimbabwe at an education summit in Pretoria.

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OBE ‘to be changed, not scrapped’

The outcomes based education (OBE) system will not be completely scrapped but will be modified to improve the performance of school pupils, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday.

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Motshekga goes back to school

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Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has gone back to school - to teach.

For Motshekga it was about giving back to her community and also heeding Nelson Mandela’s call to donate 67 minutes of one’s time to make the world a better place. More on page 655

admin @ July 28, 2010

Principal of ‘fake school’ in jail

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A former Salt Rock school principal, who is charged with several counts of fraud, has been jailed after she failed to appear in the Commercial Crimes Court last week.
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admin @ July 20, 2010