What is the Education Department doing?
admin @ August 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
New pass requirements that caused an uproar when schools were instructed to implement it a few months ago, and which teacher unions feared would result in a high failure rate, are no longer effective this year, although some schools have already implemented it.
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Why poor kids aren’t school-ready
admin @ August 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Grade R teachers and people who run community-based child-care centres are poorly trained and badly paid, with some provinces paying them a stipend of about R3 000 twice a year.
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Age is defintely not just a number
admin @ August 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A teacher hired to teach Afrikaans by the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) will not be paid because he is too old.
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School resumes classes after teachers’ murder
admin @ August 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Classes at Sithemebele Matiso High School in New Crossroads are to resume on Wednesday after the killing of its acting principal, Nomziwixolo Dziba, on Monday.
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Back to school for taxi drivers
admin @ August 25, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Minibus taxi drivers could soon start treating their customers better and improving the industry’s dented image, if a new university course has the desired effect.
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Pupils call for principal to resign
admin @ August 24, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Pupils from an Umlazi High School, where several male teachers have been accused of having relationships with female pupils, are demanding the resignation of the acting principal, saying he failed to act against teachers who did not attend class.
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Nothing wrong with cellphones at school: WCED
admin @ August 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Despite numerous incidents involving cellphones at schools, the Western Cape Education Department says there is no uniform set of rules governing pupils and their cellphones.
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Concourt to hear school language case
admin @ August 20, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Mpumalanga education department will apply to the Constitutional Court on Thursday for leave to appeal against a ruling that Hoerskool Ermelo could return to its single-medium Afrikaans status.
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Money for students unspent - report
admin @ August 19, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Universities and colleges failed to spend nearly R200-million earmarked for loans for poor students in the last two years, according to a report adopted in Parliament on Tuesday.
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2 much SMSing meanz no1 can read
admin @ August 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Poor schooling, television, video games and the use of “SMS language” have all played a part in producing the poor state of literacy displayed by South Africa’s university entrants.
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