The Department of Basic Education has published its latest School Monitoring Survey, showing where the country’s schools are improving and also where things are getting worse. The survey was commissioned by the department in 2017, and sought to measure the progress of public schools through to 2019. Across the major indicators, the department measured areas..
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South Africa’s education system has another problem: As many as one in 10 teachers at public schools are AWOL on any given day
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Give this man a Bell’s:- Historian Robin Binckes blasts Malema: ‘You’re a fraud and a con’ (letter included)
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Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has ruffled many feathers lately, sparking intense criticism from some quarters.
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Banana Republic – Standards of basic education to be lowered, ‘yet again’
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Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, announced a new plan to lower the pass mark in public schools even more. This, despite that fact that our current education system ranks amongst the lowest 5 in the WORLD!
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School governing bodies outraged over plan to strip them of powers
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The Basic Education Department is ready to squash nearly all powers of school governing bodies if it can push through proposed amendments to the South African Schools Act. The changes will affect schools’ language policy, teacher appointments and pupil admissions. The public has until November 10 to comment on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill,..
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