A looks at the celebration’s history provides guidance for the future of education

Assessments show that a more advanced maths curriculum improves learners’ results, including those of weaker pupils

A replication of our social system, education must become a social concern. Simple things like music and reading will change children’s lives.

Progressing learners through grade 11 won’t solve education’s plight – improved leadership, teaching ability and accountability are also crucial.

The education system continues to entrench elite advantage while the poor stay stuck on lower tiers.

Students in Soshanguve and Ga-Rankuwe are angry about the state of the Tshwane University of Technology – but plans are afoot for big changes.

When Angie said she’d send textbooks to Limpopo, we said ‘Baie dankie’, not… ag, just watch the new Pimples video and tell us if we’re flogging a dead horse.

This is based on a policy that no learner should stay at the same primary school phase for longer than four years.

The HEQC has audited 26 higher education institutions, 15 of them public, since the inception of the institutional audits in 2004.

As is the case with the THE-QS rankings, surprising movements occur with individual institutions from one year to the next.

With about 60 000 students TUT is South Africa’s largest university of technology and second largest university, after Unisa.