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Red light: The Economic Freedom Fighters marched to the JSE with a list of 17 demands.

Yes and no to EFF’s list of demands

Analysts say some of the requirements could be met successfully but others are non-starters.

If mitigating steps are not taken immediately, in a concerted effort by all stakeholders, the pandemic will be a catastrophe for girls.

Child marriage still rife in Mozambique

More than half a million Mozambican women between the ages of 20 and 24 years old got married before the age of 18.

They will never know.

Laaities: What do we know, though?

What do the people who were laaities in the nineties remember about the days before the struggle became really real?

Last batch: Sammy Williams is the manager of the Steenberg Adult Learning Centre in the Western Cape that is closing down because funding for teacher salaries has not been handed over.

Adult education fails its teachers

Colleges are closing down in the transition from one government department to another.

Girls from New Brighton and Helensvale joining the Rock Girls on the overland vehicle to share stories.

Day Three: ‘It’s a lot like Manenberg’

Day three of their road trip saw the Rock Girls visiting New Brighton and Helenvale to share stories with the young girls who live there.

A damning report has been leaked to the M&G

Leaked report reveals rampant cronyism in teacher hiring

A damning report held back from the public highlights the extent of cronyism and the influence of unions in filling education positions.

Pupils walking to school.

Government figures on transporting pupils to school ‘a lie’

A teacher’s organisation and two NGOs say that hundreds of thousands of children in KwaZulu-Natal walk long distances to and from school.

Although some disabled children have finally been placed in an appropriate school

Struggle continues for disabled children

Government has placed some disabled pupils in school but concerns remain over the ability of the school to give them an adequate education.

Cida City Campus staff and students met with AAYMCA on February 2 regarding the association’s offer to purchase the historical university.

Cida City Campus gets another offer on the table

Liquidators who previously ignored an offer from the AAYMCA will now be forced to meet "creditors" to discuss this and other offers.

It’s a waiting game for 2023 matric results within a seriously challenged education system

Angie fails the test for accountability

Government remains mute about missing results and the Eastern Cape’s teacher debacle.

As hundreds of thousands of matrics eagerly looked for their final exam marks

Angie fails the test for accountability

Government remains mute about missing results and the Eastern Cape’s teacher debacle.

Change: The president of the South African Spaza and Tuckshop Association

Small enterprises are embracing a new inclusive business model

Working with small business is good for big business, the economy and job creation.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is being lobbied in an online petition to  investigate violence in the country’s schools.

Grade nine maths average slips badly in 2014

The head of the professional teachers’ organisation says it is time to take a hard look at educators’ content knowledge and methodology.

The problem with South Africa’s education system is that it is mired in the politics of language and class. (Madelene Cronje/ M&G)

Schools claim no textbooks received all year

The Limpopo education department faces increased pressure after a report revealed 50% of next year’s books are yet to be acquired.

Marian Jayes

Overcoming the odds at Grahamstown school

Most pupils at Grahamstown’s GADRA school come from disadvantaged backgrounds. So how has the school become the second-biggest feeder to Rhodes?

All rests in the hands of Acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe, who, as the acting chairperson of the JSC, decides how to respond to Casac’s papers.

Can Khampepe change how elections are monitored?

The release of the Khampepe report is a hollow victory if independent organisations do not change the way they monitor African elections in future.

Bias for academic qualifications over vocational training has led to an undersupply of skills in crucial areas such as equipping people to become artisans and entrepreneurs.

Pupils put an end to inequality and sexual violence

Tlaleng Ketumile lives in the town of Kuruman, home to dusty furniture stores, cellphone shop-containers, tired restaurants and garish newer ones.

Public schools are badly affected by the department not employing enough graduates because good teachers are taken quickly by private schools.

Educators must move to the top of the class

A Unisa professor’s programme to improve teaching skills is reaping results in Limpopo, but better evaluation of such programmes is required.

A changing world requires that curricula be adapted to create graduates who are employable

Universities remain a bastion of gender discrimination

Only a small percentage of SA’s professors are black women. The cards are stacked in men’s favour, says Professor Esther Ramani. That has to change.

Robin Thicke’s song climbed the pop charts of 2013

School’s choice of ‘rape’ song at World Choir Games offends

Kearsney College has apologised unreservedly for choosing Robin Thicke’s controversial 2013 song "Blurred Lines" for the "Olympics for choirs".