Western Cape takes early-bird approach to procuring textbooks
Provincial education department has already begun procuring textbooks for 2014 to ensure all pupils have access to booksReport highlights keys to maths skills in young children
Consistently poor results by pupils in key subjects such as mathematics could be reversed through rapid expansion of early childhood development
Opinion
My formula for starting a revolution in education
Mark Barnes
Everyone knows something relatively well enough to be able to teach it, writes Mark Barnes
Equal Education decries delays in norms and standards for schools
Lobby group extends deadline to June 15, will return to court if Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga fails to promulgate rules intended to hold officials to account
SA varsities ‘should create workplace-based learning opportunities’
Alexander Forbes CE Edward Kieswetter says the design of education in South Africa allows for ‘work integration’ and that should be used effectivelyLegal duel over school admissions in Gauteng continues
Department believes it has the ultimate say on the admission policies of public schools
Raise of 25% for foundation-phase teachers welcomed
Salaries of foundation-phase teachers have been a bone of contention between the provincial department and teachers’ union Sadtu
Rights agency hails education charter
Human Rights Commission says Charter of Children’s Basic Education Rights will help provide quality and accessible education in SA
Motlanthe in passionate appeal for focus on better education in South Africa
Deputy president admits state can do more at a basic education level but cautions against ‘drastic short-term fixes’ for education system
Wits to decide on charging concert protesters
Decision to follow disruption of concert by Israeli pianist on University of the Witwatersrand campus
Wits must not become instrument of ‘Zionist racists’, says Vavi
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi joins protest against university decision to take steps after students disrupted concert by Israeli pianist
Setas to make it harder to reclaim levy
Seta system strongly criticised for increasing tax burden, while being ineffective and not delivering skills economy needs
University of Cape Town Special Report
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: SA ‘needs to reclaim lead in mining expertise’
Minerals to Metals Initiative aims to get experts working together to close the technological gap
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: Crystallisation ‘helps mining solve problems’
Anglo American Platinum confirms to Business Day that it is collaborating with UCT’s crystallisation and precipitation unit, which is looking to find ‘a way to optimise metal recovery’ in the mining process
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: Plants rising from dead could aid Africa
Jill Farrant, who has the research chair in plant molecular physiology at the University of Cape is studying crops that are drought resistant and can survive for months without water
University of Cape Town Special Report
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: UCT typifies SA research excellence
UCT is rated highest in terms of international rankings, and is the only African university in the top 200 universities in the world
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: University patents struggle to generate revenue
Even though UCT has some of the highest industry revenue and patent numbers in the country, it seems to suffers from the same problems as smaller institutions
UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN: Making models of hearts and aircraft engines
Disciplines of Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics are computational science and engineering, writes Sarah Wild
- Teachers call off strike after concessions
- School infrastructure ‘a top priority,’ says Motshekga
- Set exams for senior teaching staff, says report
- Strike violence a threat to democracy, says Cabinet
- Isasa mulls further court action over unpaid subsidies
- The long wait of the unemployed graduate
- Joblessness sees major increase in falsified certificates
- Teacher absenteeism ‘a catalyst’ for school violence
- Unisa unions call for a ‘decent’ wage increase
- Professional association launched to help improve FET colleges
- Section27 mulls return to court over Limpopo textbooks
- Cosatu backs Sadtu call for Motshekga’s head
- Sadtu members to march on Parliament
- Department of Basic Education looks to stop teachers’ union action
- School admission policy row reaches top court
- Basis for Sadtu action ‘precarious at best’
- Study debunks out of work graduate myth
- Wits to rethink outsourcing after report
- Gauteng to get 22 new schools by 2014
- Court dismisses MEC’s request for leave to appeal in Cape school closures case
- Private equity reaps handsome rewards in Africa’s classrooms
- KwaZulu to speed up payouts for school food
- Rights body probes delivery of learning materials
- New universities ‘set to open next year’
- Education set back by teachers not equipped for job
- ‘Only Zuma’ can solve school problems
- Western Cape serving breakfast to 91% of province’s schoolchildren
- Increase work-based learning, says institute
- Victory for Sadtu as court reinstates collective bargaining agreement
- Police to probe 14 independent schools for possible subsidy abuse
- Student financial aid scheme ‘a success’
- Kimberley university to open its doors in 2014, construction to start in September
- Fund to spend R60m to renovate Soweto schools
- Western Cape education MEC turns to Constitutional Court in bid to close schools
- Cabinet says education ‘turned corner’ under Motshekga’s leadership
- Lobby group ‘encouraged’ by Limpopo schools sanitation plan
- Wits finally pays staff at embattled engineering unit
- MEC launches schools online mapping project in Gauteng
- Education fund to bar higher-earning families
- Advtech’s earnings slip as enrolment dips
- Wealth tax mooted to help disadvantaged students
- Avoid teacher poaching — train your own
- MPs question '99% delivery of textbooks' to Limpopo schools
- Spending on education should favour basic facilities — OECD
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