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Dr Mark Potterton is primary school principal at Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg

Equal Education has criticised last week’s medium term budget policy statement for what it said was a failure to provide adequate funding to the education sector. (Madelene Cronje)

World Bank report on Covid-19’s effect on education is disappointing

Especially in a country like South Africa with its huge inequalities, a digital divide and teacher unions

Early learning difficulties lead to school dropout, poor matric results, repeated school years and a less effective system for preparing young people for the world

What we are learning about distance learning

Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg has learned some important lessons about teaching during the Covid-19 lockdown

Course notes on higher education transformation

Jonathan Jansen spells out the issues and difficulties in making SA a more equal society in his book, Leading for Change, writes Mark Potterton.

Coal, a key fuel for electricity production, is a major producer of carbon dioxide emissions, a major driver of global warming. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)

Primacy of exam results stunts pupils’ development

The education system focuses doggedly on the National Senior Certificate and the outcome of these exams, to the detriment of students.

Responsibility is a matter of principals

Improving access to quality education is a societal issue, but it’s for a school’s head to fish out the rot.

Things are not well at all in classrooms.
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

There is a way to weed out bullying

Teachers and pupils have a responsibility to animate a caring ethos in their institutions.

Teaching bullies a lesson

In part three of our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> looks at what schools should do about bullying.

How to beat the bullies

How to beat the bullies

In this second article in our series, <b>Mark Potterton</b> gives valuable tips on how to eradicate a worldwide scourge.

Bullying affects family life

Bullying affects family life

Bullying is an ongoing problem in schools and in society. This month we start a series in which we explore what bullying is and how to deal with it.

Unique vs uniform

Unique vs uniform

<b>Mark Potterton</b> tackles a subject that makes both parents and educators hot under the collar.

Breaking the blood knot

Jonathan Jansen’s ‘pardoning’ of four University of the Free State students seems to run counter to some ideas in his groundbreaking book.

The quest for quality

Readers of the Teacher will be familiar with the writing of Dr Richard Hayward, the author of this book.

Working it out

Getting Schools Working has its roots in research commissioned by the Presidents’ Education Initiative published in 1999 as Getting Learning Right. This new book addresses the…

Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 48 815 703 at 2.14pm on Thursday

Illegal sales: Aids drugs supplied to Africa at cut rates have been illegally resold in Europe, threatening to undermine a system of preferential medicine pricing for poor…