LOCAL Hybrid public hearings on the contested Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill are expected to kick off today. Despite backlash from unions and civil society, the department maintains that the changes aim to improve education by modernizing outdated laws. Amendments include making Grade R compulsory, criminalizing keeping children out[…]
Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga will on Sunday morning brief the media on the state of readiness ahead of the commencement of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations, in Pretoria. A total of 753 964 full-time and 167 915 part-time candidates are registered for the upcoming matric examinations scheduled[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis Masha Allah! During these auspicious days of Dhul-Hijjah, the local community have been blessed with the presence of Dr. Khalid El-Awaisi Bayt al-Maqdis. Dr. Khalid is the Executive Director at the International Centre for Jerusalem Studies in Turkey. He is also a graduate of the pioneering[…]
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga says comprehensive sex education in schools is important for preventing HIV, early and unintended pregnancies and gender-based violence (GBV). Motshekga was speaking at the UN educational, scientific and cultural organisation (Unesco) on Wednesday. She said adolescents and young people have a right to sex and[…]
INTERNATIONAL An investigation says many children also go without medical care as they have no birth certificates. Thousands of migrant children in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) go without schooling and healthcare, according to a story by The Washington Post. Many of the children are without birth certificates because they[…]
NATIONAL Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga says she is concerned about the progress that’s being made at schools since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Motshekga is visiting some schools in Bloemfontein on Thursday to assess teaching and learning. She says that only around 30% of the current[…]
The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) says the Department of Basic Education has failed to reach its target of vaccinating over half a million teachers and support staff against the coronavirus. Thursday is the deadline set by the department to complete the roll-out in the education sector which started[…]
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has told Parliament that plans are at an advanced stage for the standardisation of assessments for grades three, six, and nine. This will be accompanied by the introduction of a general education certificate before grade nine. Speaking during her department’s budget vote debate on Thursday,[…]
Over 19 000 young people, who have been employed as education assistants, have received a temporary life-line after their contracts were extended by a month. The assistants were employed in December last year, as part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme. The aim is to mitigate job losses in light[…]
Civil society organisations say President Cyril Ramaphosa has ignored a promise he made last year to the deaf community that the sign language will become the 12th official language. They say a year later, nothing has been done by government to ensure that the sign language receives the recognition it[…]
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