Thousands of matrics ready for second chance
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More than 25 000 Gauteng pupils are going to rewrite some of their matric exams, the provincial department of education said on Thursday.
‘State has funds for students’
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The concerns of students waiting to be registered at the University of Zululand would be addressed, said Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande during a visit to the institution yesterday.
Historically disadvantaged matrics hailed
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The Western Cape Education Department will, “in the next few weeks”, announce major initiatives to turn around under-performing schools, says MEC Donald Grant.
Matrics apply to rewrite exams
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More than 1 400 of last year’s matriculants have applied to the Western Cape Education Department to have their exam scripts re-marked, while 7 997 candidates qualified to write supplementary exams.
Bronagh Casey, spokeswoman for Education MEC Donald Grant, said the figure for re-marking could rise.
Protesting DUT students hurt in clash
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Registration at the Durban University of Technology has come to a halt after clashes in which security guards fired paintball pellets at protesting students.
Ignored official writes to JZ
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A Free State educational official who has done no work for the past seven years has written to President Jacob Zuma to help stop her “forced” idling, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Thursday.
UK offers visas to SA matrics
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South African matriculants, including the ones who failed, can study and work in Britain, a travel agency said on Wednesday.
DUT relief team off to Haiti
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Durban University of Technology (DUT) lecturers will take their lessons out of the classrooms and into Haiti to help with relief efforts in the earthquake-devastated country.There are fears that the death toll may rise to 200 000 as rescue workers battle to get food, water and medical supplies to tens of thousands of people.
Varsity fees are too expensive - most readers
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Matriculants from around the country are preparing to further their studies at tertiary institutions, but many have found themselves at a loss because of the high tuition fees.
UFS clamps down on booze, initiations
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Two of the four Reitz students who were personally invited back to the University of the Free State by vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen will not be joining thousands of their fellow students and pursuing their studies this year.
RC Malherbe and Schalk van der Merwe took part in the notorious Reitz video, which showed the humiliation of […]