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Free meal extended to high schools
From next year, poor high schools will be getting a free meal for every child.
The Mandela family is still seeking answers as to how Kefuoe Seakamela died while under teacher supervision.
Teachers 'bear the brunt of trauma'
Students and teachers have been receiving trauma counselling at Sacred Heart College where Zoleka Mandela's half-sister drowned.
Matric exams run smoothly - Vinjevold
There have been no serious irregularities in the 2008 matric exams, according to Education Department deputy director general Penny Vinjevold.
Job prospects for 2008 matrics look grim, according to an economist at Efficient Group.
Today marks the final day of the new National Senior Certificate exams and many grade 12 learners around the country finished off a difficult month with the Maths Paper 3 test. The paper was optional and the result will not reflect on the learners' ...
Sanele Mosikili* arrived at school for the final day of the year only to be chased away by the principal of her primary school because her mother had not paid school fees. What was supposed to be an exciting and fun-filled day as Sanele graduated...
Digital age dawns in classroom
The hawksbill turtle was one of the hottest attractions at Hong Kong's Asia World Expo Centre (AWE) which, last month, resembled a Sunday marketplace. Standing next to her stall, Marie-May Iman, a teacher at Plaisance Secondary School on the island ...
Marianne Pienaar a teacher at Norman Henshilwood High School in Cape Town spoke to the Teacher about the National Senior Certificate History Paper 1 exam written today. "I found the paper to be very fair and straightforward, and I am confident the l...
Thumbs up for Business Studies exam
In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we speak to Michael Zuma about the grade 12 Business Studies paper, which was written today. Zuma is the head of commerce at Little Flower Secondary School in Kwazulu-...
The education department has absolutely no intention of ditching outcomes-based education (OBE), MiniÂster Naledi Pandor insisted in an exclusive interview this week. But it had already modified the system and would continue to tweak it. Pandor r...
In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we look at the Geography paper which was written today. David Miller, principal and head of grade 12 at Norman Henshilwood High School in Cape Town shared his views o...
Some learners not impressed by isiZulu exam
Grade 12 learners wrote the National Senior Certificate isiZulu Home Language Paper 2 today, and not all the candidates were impressed. Phili Nxumalo, grade 12 isiZulu educator at the Marianhill Secondary Independent School in KwaZulu-Natal, says wh...
Grade 12 learners around the country spent three hours writing Physical Science Paper 2: Chemistry today, and we got Theo Pellissier's opinion on the exam. "After speaking to some of my learners and looking at the paper, I think today's exam was muc...
Review: Grade 12 Physical Science exam
In the latest installment of our series on the National Senior Certificate exams, we look at the Physical Science Paper 1, which was written today. Theo Pelliessier is the deputy principal and head of science at Sasolburg High School says the paper ...
Grade 12 learners around the country wrote English Home Language Paper 2 today. The Teacher spoke to Lorraine Swift at Despatch High School in the Easetern Cape to get her opinion on the examination paper. "On the whole it seems a pretty fai...
Stamp of approval for economics paper
In the latest instalment of our review of the National Senior Certificate exams the Teacher looks at the Economics paper which was written today. Michael Zuma teaches economics at Little Flower Senior Secondary in KwaZulu-Natal and says the paper wa...
The evolution/design debate goes on
Twenty-nine percent of teachers in the United Kingdom believe that creationism and intelligent design should be taught as science, according to an online survey of attitudes to teaching evolution. Nearly 50% of the respondents said they believed th...
The year was 1969, my first year of teaching. The last day of the school year at Doornfontein Primary had arrived. Everyone in my standard two (grade four) class was excited. At 12pm the bell would ring shrilly to announce the start of the December h...
To try to address South Africa's teacher shortage a corporate-led initiative will place teachers in classrooms from 2009, marking the start of a drive to attract 1 500 graduates to the profession by 2013. Next year 15 schools in Ekurhuleni will kick...