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Tens of thousands join teachers’ protest in Rio

This week’s teachers march in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro has drawn the biggest turnout since the wave of protests during the Confederations Cup in June.

Ugandan teachers strike to demand 20% pay increase

Schoolteachers have protested against government rejecting a 20% pay demand.

The organisation called the right to strike a “very powerful weapon”, giving workers the ability to influence employer to deal with workplace grievances. (David Harrison/M&G)

Sadtu march: ‘Run Angie, run’

Classrooms stood empty as Sadtu members took to the streets calling for Angie Motshekga and Bobby Soobrayan to step down immediately.

We chat to our education reporters about the ANC’s announcement to make education an essential service: what does this mean and will it have any real effect?

M&G Hangout: Should education be an essential service?

We chat to our education reporters about the ANC’s announcement to make education an essential service: what does this mean and will it have any real effect?

Teacher strikes have a big impact on learning.

Self-teaching is the future

Doing things oneself is imperative in the knowledge-based economy.

A watershed moment for Sadtu

A watershed moment for Sadtu

Sadtu’s call to members to examine their role in delivering education is a sea change in attitude.

Sadtu backs down from strike but goes to court

Eastern Cape matrics are safe from a teachers’ strike for now but tensions remain high as Sadtu takes the department of education to court.

Teachers on warpath in E Cape as strike talk escalates

About 53 000 Eastern Cape teachers have moved closer to striking as their union talks tough, setting Friday as the deadline for government to respond.

Eastern Cape teacher strike could hit exams

The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union could not guarantee that a strike by 53 000 teachers would not disrupt matric exams.

Frenzied bid to avert EC teachers’ matric exam strike

The department of basic education is scrambling to avert a possible strike by 53 000 teachers — in the middle of the matric exams.

Sadtu is ‘self-serving’, says DA

A row between Sadtu and the DA is brewing over a Bill that seeks to limit the striking rights of teachers.

Parents: Teachers’ strike a ‘tragedy’

The National Association of Parents in School Governance (NAPSG) called the protracted public servants’ strike at schools "a tragedy" on Thursday.

Parents, pupils called to help teach

As pupils taught their peers in the absence of striking teachers, the basic education department claimed it would support schools during the strike.

Teachers head back to the classroom

More than 6 000 teachers in the Johannesburg region resolved to suspend the four-week-long ”chalks-down” strike.