The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has urged parents to approach their nearest school or district office in order to secure a last minute spot for their child for the upcoming academic year. The enrollment period for 2016 officially shut on the 30th December, but parents can still approach schools[…]
The department of basic education hopes a planned new three-tiered school system will eventually see about 60% of pupils completing technical qualifications, the City Press reported on Sunday. “People can laugh at [EFF leader Julius] Malema because of [his having studied] woodwork, but woodwork can make you a very successful[…]
“Mitchell’s Plain-based Spine Road High School has had a phenomenal academic year both in and outside the classroom including a highly successful matric pass rate, record attendance figures and several competition victories. The school has been pushing well above expectations in recent years and in January announced a 100% matric[…]
Chemistry teacher Andaleeb Aftab had spent the morning invigilating at an exam before taking a break in the school’s staff room. It was just as she was beginning to make her way back to the classroom that she heard the screams. There were gunmen in the school, a colleague was[…]
Pakistan executed four men on Wednesday for involvement in the massacre of 134 children at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar last year, media and security sources said. The hangings were the first execution of civilians convicted by Pakistan’s military courts, which were set up after the[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has assured that schools in Hanover Park are on high alert after an escalation in gang violence in the area, with police presence romped up at three institutions close to the heart of the warfare. This comes after two fatal shootings on Wednesday around[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has launched a final plea for parents to ensure their children have been enrolled at a school or risk exclusion from the 2016 academic year. The department has made several calls throughout the year in order to get parents to be more proactive, but[…]
Crime-ridden schools in the city may seen a significant improvement if a newly established unit becomes effective. The City of Cape Town and Western Cape government jointly launched the School Resource Officer (SRO) Unit at the Cedar High School in Mitchells Plain on Thursday. Together with the United States Consul[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has processed 128 545 school student applications for the 2016 academic year, with 118 429 of those applicants having successfully been placed in an institution thus far. The announcement comes amid a second call from the department for parents to honour school enrollment deadlines,[…]
More than 13 million children are being denied an education due to conflicts in the Middle East, the UN has said, warning “the hopes of a generation” would be dashed if they cannot return to classrooms. In a report on the impact of conflict on education in six countries and[…]
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