As the final 2014 school year comes to an end, parents at Disa primary school in Hout Bay were met with disappointment after they were hoping to share the last celebrations with their children at the school graduation ceremony on Tuesday. But one parent who was looking forward to seeing[…]
The Supreme Court of Appeal has given the Western Cape education department the go ahead to close all but one of the 17 schools earmarked for closure in 2012, Business Day reported on Wednesday. In his judgment on Tuesday Judge Eric Leach said the education MEC had the power under[…]
With the school year having drawn to a close and students eagerly awaiting their end of year results, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has stressed that the withholding of report cards for students with outstanding fees will not be tolerated. This comes as many schools have taken to using[…]
As the current school year draws to a close, damning statistics reveal almost 10 500 children in the Western Cape are likely to be without a school for the 2015. With the enrollment period having concluded in 2015, many schools have been left packed to capacity and unable to accept[…]
The Supreme Court of Appeal is set to finally pass judgement within the next two weeks on the fate of 17 schools, earmarked for closure in 2012 by the Western Cape Education Department. This comes after an initial move to have the schools shut down was overturned in July 2013,[…]
At least 48 people, most of them students, have been killed after an explosion ripped through a secondary school in northeast Nigeria, as students gathered for morning assembly before classes began. Witnesses said a suicide bomber disguised in a school uniform carried out the attack at the Government Comprehensive Senior[…]
Mortar shells struck a school east of Damascus on Wednesday, killing at least 11 children, said activists, and the death toll was likely to rise. It was the most serious violence against Syrian minors since a twin suicide bombing killed at least 25 children near a school in October. The[…]
African languages should be developed in schools so that they can become mediums of teaching, particularly in the foundation phase, the SA “All schools should be provided with human resources with regards to teaching in that language,” the union said in a statement. The congress also called for teacher training[…]
At least half a million children returned to their schools in the Gaza strip on Sunday, where many will be given special attention and pyschological counselling before their regular classes begin. This initiative aims to help children deal with the traumas the war has inflicted on them. There has been[…]
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