Teacher strike can be averted, says Motshekga
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Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will meet with other ministers on Thursday, in an attempt to avert a strike by South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) members, her office said on Wednesday.
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Motshekga goes back to school
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Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga has gone back to school - to teach.
For Motshekga it was about giving back to her community and also heeding Nelson Mandela’s call to donate 67 minutes of one’s time to make the world a better place.
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Principal of ‘fake school’ in jail
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A former Salt Rock school principal, who is charged with several counts of fraud, has been jailed after she failed to appear in the Commercial Crimes Court last week.
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It’s back to school
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After a lengthy five-week holiday, pupils may struggle to slip back into their early morning rising routine, but they should not struggle with exam preparations.
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Invest in our children, says Zuma
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President Jacob Zuma read fellow leaders a lesson before heading out with them to Sunday’s World Cup final.
Just hours before the Dutch-Spanish final, Zuma convened leaders from Burkina Faso, Kenya, Togo, Mozambique, the Netherlands and neighbouring Zimbabwe at an education summit in Pretoria.
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OBE ‘to be changed, not scrapped’
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The outcomes based education (OBE) system will not be completely scrapped but will be modified to improve the performance of school pupils, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday.
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Green light for exams, says Grant
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The Western Cape is ready for the matric exams, Education MEC Donald Grant said on Sunday.
He said additional resources to help pupils had been provided since January and targets set for each school in the province, with detailed support plans for schools with historically low pass rates.
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Unisa wage dispute settled
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An agreement has been reached in the wage dispute which saw staff at the University of SA (Unisa) down tools, the institution said on Friday.
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