Embracing new ways can be overwhelming for in-service teachers if adequate training and support are not provided
Fifty percent of the country’s teachers may leave the profession in 10 years, threatening education quality and rural staffing
Teachers, especially those in schools where violence, drugs and gangsterism are a daily reality, need to become ‘trauma informed’
Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) recently held the first of four professional development sessions planned for 2025 directed at intersen (grades 4-7) and senior…
Despite obstacles faced by the learners, their hard work resulted in an 81.4% grade 12 pass rate
Learners should be taught in their home language and they need textbooks. Teachers must be part of curriculum reforms and know how to use teaching guides.
Arts education is critical, because it has the capacity to liberate learners from economic, social and political forces. What’s needed is funding, training and political will
One of their biggest challenges is getting parents to support ECD practitioners and day mothers and get more involved in their children’s development
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in the country’s schools closing and teachers being left without jobs
‘He was like a loving father,’ says community member of murdered teacher in Philippi, Western Cape
The positive effect on the children has spilled over into the local community and improved social cohesion
People at early childhood development are still fighting to get Covid-19 vaccinations
Police minister Bheki Cele and national commissioner Khehla Sitole receive their Covid-19 vaccines as inoculation starts for law enforcement
The long wait to move early childhood development teachers to the department of basic education will be over in nine months, but this does not mean all of them are yet in line to…
The learner was 13 when the alleged rapes started, and they continued for two years until she asked to be moved to another school
Some principals do not have the skills to compile bullying reports; others fear being victimised. This has led to children battling the scourge alone
The Human Rights Commission inquiry into bullying and sex at schools in Limpopo has heard that some principals don’t report cases of a sexual nature that involve teachers and…
Some think that putting women in sticky situations when they reach the top is setting them up for failure, but the opposite could be true
Angie Motshekga was speaking to learners in a secondary school in Pretoria
Ramaphosa says regaining learning time lost to the coronavirus pandemic will be a priority this year, but does not specify how
