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Unions give their wish lists to MEC

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Prioritising matric exams, security at schools and the payment of outstanding money owed to teachers is what the newly appointed provincial education MEC Senzo Mchunu should focus on, say teacher unions.

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COPE condemns Pityana attacks

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The Congress of the People plans to raise recent attacks on Unisa vice-chancellor Barney Pityana with Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande, the party said on Sunday.

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Zuma appeals to universities

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Better state intervention is needed if more poor students are to have access to higher education, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday.

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Pityana shrugs off call to resign

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University of South Africa (Unisa) vice-chancellor Barney Pityana is adamant that he will stay in his position, despite repeated calls for him to resign.

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Poor management cost university millions

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A forensic audit into the affairs of the embattled Mangosuthu University of Technology found major problems in the administration and management of university property and loan accounts.

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Committee exposes rot in exams

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Veteran academic and education researcher Professor Jonathan Jansen has expressed deep concern at the examination system used in South African schools, and labelled its integrity “questionable”.

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Our failing schools

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Teachers are spending less time in the classrooms, and instead are confused and swamped by paperwork and administration, a ministerial panel has found.

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Sex predator teachers to be listed publicly

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The names of teachers found guilty of sexually abusing pupils will be published in the government gazette from July and listed on the Internet to warn off prospective employers from hiring sex-pest educators, according to Rej Brijraj, the chief executive of the South African Council for Educators (Sace).

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Teachers will have to buy laptops

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Teachers around the country will become eligible for laptops from July after a scheme which would make purchases of the computers a condition of their service was gazetted on Monday.

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Creecy vows to address salary saga

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About 1 200 teachers and support staff went without their salaries at the end of April, the Gauteng Education Department said on Wednesday.

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