Education

Eastern Cape parents build their own school

Baleni Senior Secondary School near Xolobeni is raising funds to build classrooms and other facilities

Anger over exclusion of ECD centres from teacher vaccinations

Early childhood development centre owners say they are “the forgotten sector”

Teacher “temporarily removed” after sexual assault allegation

Gauteng education department is investigating following protests by parents

Special needs school in Makhanda will have to wait another three years at least

Ten years after a court order, Education Department has finally acquired the land

Failure to fix pit latrines in Limpopo schools “outrageous”

Equal Education says there were 472 schools with pit latrines in 2019, and that grew to 515 in 2020

Parents shut down schools and clinic in Pietermaritzburg

They are demanding that a principal be fired

Parents shut down school over inflated rent

Governing body says R138k per month building is unsuitable for schooling

Tax blow for parents of children with special needs

SARS proposes that parents should no longer claim tax relief for special needs school fees

Eastern Cape MEC warns of system collapse because of unpaid school water bills

Schools urged to provide food parcels for learners

Children are missing meals on days they are not at school because of Covid-19 shifts

Parents win three year battle to build school

Construction of Kariega school was stalled because education department failed to pay contractors

A quarter of Worcester’s children are stunted

Mothers who completed high school are much less likely to have stunted children

Learners sent home as taps run dry at Eastern Cape schools

Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber to adopt over 30 schools to help with water saving measures

Researchers call for full reopening of schools after report shows more than half of children miss meals

The total lost days of meals could be as high as 133 out of 211 school days

Early childhood development centres protest over “virtually non-existent roll out” of relief fund

Social Development says it cannot disburse funds without the necessary verifications

Parents demand brick and mortar classrooms for rural Limpopo school

The provincial education department says construction will start during the 2022/23 financial year