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Getting in pupils’ bad books?

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Some say homework is necessary - others say it isn’t. Indeed, some extremists in the “isn’t” group go so far as to accuse schools of setting homework “to give parents the impression that they are serious about education”.

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‘Any form of bullying is not tolerable’

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The setting alight of a 12-year-old boy during a bullying incident was condemned by Gauteng health and social development MEC Qedani Mahlangu on Wednesday.

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Pay for matric results, media told

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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is insisting on “voluntary donations” from media houses for early access to the matric results, with the DA describing the idea as a form of corruption.

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Department to build 20 schools

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The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education intends to spend just over R2-billion of its R29bn budget building about 2 000 classrooms and other facilities in this financial year.

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KZN earmarks funds for new classrooms

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More than R2-billion has been set aside for the building of classrooms, Education MEC John Mchunu announced on Wednesday.
“This financial year an amount of R2-billion has been set aside for infrastructural developments,” said Mchunu delivering the R29-billion budget in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg.

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Less sex, more TV for SA kids

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South African schoolchildren are having less sex and watching more television, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
The National Youth Risk Behaviour Survey, the second of its kind, was conducted in 2008, the Medical Research Council said.

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‘Poverty did not stop me’

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A man who started Grade 6 at the age of 24, hoping to escape a life of poverty, has exceeded his own expectations and graduated with a national diploma in building.

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Parents divided over school protests

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Parents of protesting Naphakade Secondary and Primary school pupils are deeply divided about whether their children should continue protests, which turned violent in clashes with police.

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I was trapped alone in school for hours: teen

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A Parow teenager says she spent five hours locked up alone in her school after a teacher “forgot” her in the building.

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Close riot school - cops

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Police asked the Western Cape Education Department today to close a Malmesbury school after its pupils set fire to classrooms yesterday.

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