Education

I am a TVET lecturer. Here are suggestions for helping teachers and learners during Covid-19

Improving access to online technology is vital

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Opinion | 30 April 2020

Covid-19: Open Letter to Minister Angie Motshekga

Ten suggestions for the Minister of Basic Education to assist school children and teachers during and after the lockdown

Opinion | 14 April 2020

Covid-19: School feeding reopens in Western Cape

But South African Democratic Teachers Union accuses province of undermining national plan to limit the spread of Covid-19

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News | 9 April 2020

Covid-19: School bodies halt plan to house Gauteng’s homeless

The department says 30 schools with hostels would be used as shelters

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Brief | 1 April 2020

Parents still scrambling to place learners in Eastern Cape

The provincial department says an admission committee has been set up to assist unplaced learners

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News | 18 March 2020

“People are dying and getting injured everyday on this road,” says Cornubia resident

EThekwini Municipality says it is considering erecting a temporary steel pedestrian bridge on the R102

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Brief | 12 March 2020

Parents lock principal out of school

Willowfontein Intermediate school is in a dire state and issues are not being addressed, say community members

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Brief | 11 March 2020

Eastern Cape learners walk more than 30km to a school without teachers for them

No scholar transport, no maths or English teacher

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News | 11 March 2020

Police remove students protesters at Malmesbury college

West Coast (TVET) College management says 1,769 students still have details outstanding before they can be approved for allowances

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News | 10 March 2020

One toilet for 659 learners at high school in Limpopo

Storm damage to the school in November last year has not been repaired

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News | 9 March 2020

School suffers teacher shortage after 100% matric pass rate

Enrolment numbers have doubled at Coselelani High School and teachers can’t cope

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Brief | 6 March 2020

School for disabled battles to stay open

Seven teachers resign at Oasis centre in Upington

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News | 6 March 2020

Parents shut down school for second week demanding a fence

“The department does not take the safety of our children seriously”

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Brief | 5 March 2020

Limpopo learners walk ten kilometres to nearest school

Department yet to arrange scholar transport

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Brief | 5 March 2020

Not much progress with Ramaphosa’s school sanitation campaign

Only 266 out of 3,898 schools have benefitted

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News | 2 March 2020

Seven years after renovations started, school still incomplete

“Usually when it rains I have to stand for the rest of the period because my spot leaks” says learner

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Brief | 28 February 2020