The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has warned that it will investigate complaints from parents whose children’s reports are being withheld for any reason. Schools will issue report cards to learners across the province this week when the academic year ends for learners on Wednesday. Education MEC Debbie Shafer says[…]
Many schools are defiantly refusing to implement the Annual National Assessment (ANA) examinations, despite The Department of Basic Education (DBE) giving schools until Friday 4th December by which to administer the tests. Government has been at loggerheads with teacher unions over the ANAs, with the South African Democratic Teachers Union[…]
A number of South African schools have come under fire after a report by Corruption Watch revealed that more than one thousand cases of corruption in schools were reported between 2012-15. The cases range from financial mismanagement, theft of funds, tender corruption and employment corruption. According to the organisation’s Lucky[…]
Every year, black and coloured parents face an uphill battle to enrol their children at elite schools such as Paul Roos Gymnasium, Stellenbosch Against Racism (Star) said on Tuesday. “They have a quota of how much coloured and black children they allow in. Children [from other areas] are bussed in.[…]
The City of Cape Town’s Social Development and Early Childhood Development Directorate will soon introduce baby simulators into schools across the province to tackle substance abuse. The pilot project will see 32 baby simulators distributed in 80 schools amongst 2400 learners in an attempt to tackle substance abuse in an[…]
The Department of Basic Education has confirmed Mandarin will be introduced as a subject in South African schools next year. A circular was issued by the department to national and provincial education authorities, indicating that the Chinese language will be added to the school curriculum in January 2016. Basic Education[…]
Students from several high school Muslim Student Association (MSA) bodies have opted to unite under a solitary banner, with the goal of developing an active network through which to promote cultural and religious identity. The newly formed ‘MSA Schools of the Cape’, which is to launch with a conference this[…]
Drug addicts are using schools as “hardware shops” to find whatever they can sell to buy a quick fix. These crimes were costing the department money that could otherwise be spent on additional teaching posts or study materials, Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schafer said on Tuesday. She announced that[…]
Schools in rebel-held areas in Aleppo will be closed for at least a week after bloody air raids on civilian areas, carried out by the goverment of Bashar al-Assad, a monitor and activists said on Monday. News of the closure comes as fighting between rebel and government forces on Syria’s[…]
As the 2015 school year commenced on Wednesday, many children and parents in Mitchell’s plain are still struggling to get placed in schools, as the number of children starting school and high school increases year on year. The Mitchell’s Plain Education Forum’s (MPEF) chairperson Colleen Horswell said even after pressure[…]
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