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Education gets make-over from Motshekga

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From next year, pupils across the country will do fewer projects, and teachers’ workloads will be reduced. This will be the effect of some of the changes to the National Education Curriculum that were announced yesterday by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.

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Administrative bungle for matric pupil

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While thousands of matric pupils began their exams this week, a Phoenix youngster is locked in a battle with the KwaZulu Natal Department of Education after an administrative bungle resulted in him being allowed to write only five of his seven final year papers.

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Jansen ‘a racist that should be killed’

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The Democratic Alliance is today laying charges against the Free State ANC Youth League Chairperson, Thebe Meeko, for hate speech and intimidation and the DA in the Free State will be laying a criminal charge of intimidation.

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Council backs Jansen

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The re-opening of discussions on the University of the Free State’s decisions to pardon the “Reitz four” will start on Wednesday.
Chairperson of the UFS council, Judge Faan Hancke, said on Monday the council fully supported Rector Jonathan Jansen’s efforts to bring about reconciliation and transformation.
“Professor Jansen’s actions are seen in the light of his efforts […]

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Drugs ‘at every school in province’

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Schoolground drug dealing has become a serious problem for teachers and police, with nearly 30 young dealers expelled from city schools in less than two years.
Police say in some cases parents are aware their children are selling drugs at school.

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Security measures in place for matric exams

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Necessary steps are taken to ensure the integrity of matric examinations, the Department of Basic Education said on Thursday, after some of this year’s exam papers were leaked in Mpumalanga.

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‘This is a national problem’

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The University of the Free State’s medical school is in danger of being closed down, its acting head told Parliament on Wednesday.“There is a real issue of whether the school of medicine should be closed down in the Free State,” Andries Stulting told Parliament’s portfolio committee on health.

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UFS video - a joke gone wrong?

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The Free State ANC on Tuesday criticised the University of the Free State’s decision to withdraw its charges against four students who landed the institution in a racial storm in 2008.
Provincial African National Congress spokesman Teboho Sikisi said the party’s view remained that racism was a crime against humanity and had no space in the […]

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Afrikaans here to stay - UFS principal

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Inaugural Lecture of the 13th Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Free State
For such a time as this
Jonathan D Jansen

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Race row students ‘embraced’

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Is Jonathan Jansen, the first black vice-chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS), brave or arrogant?
South Africans are trying to decide after the bombshell announcement in his inaugural speech on Friday that four white students at the centre of a race incident in 2008 should be embraced.

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