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Plan outpaces the learners and teachers (Photo Archive)

Plan outpaces the learners and teachers

I recently bumped into a friend who is an experienced teacher at a suburban primary school and who generally loves his work. But he says he is becoming tired of the jam-packed…

As a result of #FeesMustFall, universities throughout the world have taken up the fight for the decolonial project. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy)

The fallist movement and the changes it has made

Fees must Fall has allowed us to imagine what a free and just society looks like, outside of colonial rule

(John McCann/M&G)

Catch up with reality, Cosas

Declaring agriculture a ‘compulsory’ subject smacks of desperate political posturing

Deputy Minister for Higher Education Buti Manamela said the CCMA would be mediating the process in the hope that negotiations would be completed by the end of the week.

Universities must adapt to the future

Technology will constantly change the working world and institutions need to get the message

There are many examples of scientific knowledge coming out of Africa. Universities need to consider that a decolonised curriculum can improve students’ critical thinking.

​Afrocentric science can be liberatory

History explains why students’ calls for decolonised education should be heeded.

President Barack Obama.

​Coloniality persists in our universities and we must urgently decolonise

Decolonisation will take time and those capable of making it a reality are in short supply.

Aza Madiba

It takes a village to raise a suburban child

Communal home schooling is subverting negative and Eurocentric stereotypes.

Sabbir Alam of Bangladesh in his tuckshop in Meqheleng near the Ficksburg border post. (File photo: Thulani Mbele/Sowetan/Gallo images)

Leave the children alone: Thais reject junta’s new behavioural code

An additional round of patriotic propaganda has been added to the Thai school curriculum.

Pressure: Publishers have thrown the book at the government for the three months it has given them to produce textbooks

No time to make decent textbooks

Publishers bemoan the impossibly tight deadlines imposed by the education department, which compromises academic quality.

Belta Dombeni

Digital learning centre opens new doors for pupils

A digital learning centre is opening doors to opportunities never before imagined by pupils and adult learners in a rural village in Mpumalanga.

Dr Nkosinathi Sishi

KZN Education Department launches Subject Advisory Committees

A new initiative byt the KZN education department aims to improve matric results and foster teacher growth.

The horror of back to basics

The horror of back to basics

celebrations at the "demise" of outcomes-based education (OBE) suggest that our memories must be very short, says educationist <b>Cynthia Kros</b>.

ANC supports basic education reforms

The ANC on Wednesday welcomed Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s changes to the education curriculum.