Take it back to the basics and focus on reading, writing and understanding

Mandla Makupula was a fearless and straight-talking activist

Individual attention is impossible to achieve in crowded classrooms

Pass rates are too simplistic a measure to show the true state of SA’s education system.

A Zimbabwean poet laments an elite education that was devoid of any real sense of place.

"Mud schools" in the Eastern Cape might have to wait until 2011 before their legal application to improve their infrastructure is heard in court