By Abubaker Abrahams Education activists and trade unions believe concerns around the safety of learners and teachers in gang affected communities are not being handled with urgency. This comes in the wake of increased gang violence in high risk areas of the Cape Flats, such as Manenberg, Hanover Park, Lavender[…]
As South Africans celebrate youth month, advocacy group Equal Education is calling for history to be made compulsory for Grade 4 to 12 pupils, and for a review of the history curriculum. The group’s two-day national teaching and learning summit, which was held in Joburg under the theme “40 Years[…]
Struggling Grade 11 pupils pushed through to the class of 2017 might be able write their matric examination over two years. A proposal to allow “progressed” pupils – those who failed Grade 11 twice but were nevertheless promoted to Grade 12 – to write the first half of their examination in[…]
Equal Education on Sunday asked South Africans to spare a thought for those students who had dropped out of schooling before they could even reach matric. “If half or nearly half of all learners never take matric, this is a major problem in itself,” said the civil rights organisation in[…]
With matriculants hoping to enter the labour market soon, the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town says the tax subsidy is a very expensive government subsidy with almost little impact. It further addressed the worrying concern that the government’s youth employment initiative seems[…]
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