Let us in, say KwaZulu-Natal students 2006-02-07 14:24:48
University of KwaZulu-Natal students have braved the rain to protest against financial exclusions and wage increases, while staff are joining the demonstrations because they want better pay.Full Story...
Students protest halts UKZN registration day 2006-02-06 17:26:33
Students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Westville Campus have brought the first day of registration to a grinding halt.Full Story...
Deaf teacher gets management post 2006-02-06 18:26:31
Durban teacher Ingrid Parkin has become the first deaf deputy principal of a school in the history of education in the developing world. Barbara Cole spoke to her about some of the challenges she has faced in life...Full Story...
New therapy to rewrite the story of life 2006-02-04 14:53:50
On a bad day Dominique Holdewage used to throw violent temper tantrums, refused to participate in class activities and lagged behind in her performance at pre-school. Her family were at their wits end until Dominique underwent therapy using a special process.Full Story...
'Wetlands are wet, wild and wonderful' 2006-02-02 23:45:45
It's been 35 years since an international Convention on Wetlands was signed in Iran - and a group of 120 Soshanguve pupils got down to some wild and wonderful learning at the Pretoria Botanical Gardens in honour of the event.Full Story...
Mbeki highlights skills, land, efficiency 2006-02-03 16:11:36
President Thabo Mbeki, in his state-of-the nation address, singled out for urgent attention the harnessing of scarce skills, raising government efficiency, and speeding up land reform.Full Story...
Student debt at KZN institutions hits R130m 2006-02-01 03:54:18
KwaZulu-Natal universities and technikons are faced with a dilemma - they are owed more than R130-million in fees which they have a statutory obligation to collect - but they also want to create as many opportunities for students as possible.Full Story...
Good news for students as state coughs up 2006-02-01 04:41:53
The national education department says it has set aside more than R1,3-billion to support students at public higher education institutions.Full Story...
Primary schools gets numeracy, literacy help 2006-02-01 09:20:25
Five hundred teaching assistants are to be employed throughout the province - within little more than a month - as part of the Western Cape education department's initiative to improve literacy and numeracy.Full Story...
TUT students embark on mass action 2006-02-01 02:56:49
A rolling mass action protest against "unfair" exclusions has been started by close to one thousand students at the Tshwane University of Technology's Ga-Rankuwa campus.Full Story...
Scholarship group meet their patron 2006-01-31 23:36:22
Fifteen young Africans have just been given the chance of a lifetime to study at university - but now there's only one thing on their mind: meeting former South African president Nelson Mandela.Full Story...
PE teacher tried to autograph girls' bottoms 2006-02-01 01:16:22
The sentencing of a Port Elizabeth teacher who tried to sign his name on schoolgirls' bottoms has sparked a major outcry in the city.Full Story...
Teachers not ready to teach new curriculum 2006-01-31 06:25:48
Teachers have raised doubts about their state of readiness to implement the new outcomes based education curriculum after only attending a one-day workshop.Full Story...
Internship probe at ambulance college 2006-01-31 03:57:39
A group of independent auditors have been commissioned by the Western Cape health department to probe "suspected irregularities" at the province's Emergency Medical Services.Full Story...
Madiba 'happy' to meet scholarship students 2006-01-31 08:04:18
Former president Nelson Mandela presented 15 students with the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship - which concentrates on leadership building in Africa - at his Johannesburg offices.Full Story...
TUT students protest 'financial exclusion' 2006-01-31 05:10:47
Students at the Tshwane University of Technology's Garankuwa campus have gathered to strike against what they are calling "academic and financial exclusion".Full Story...
Madiba the super-hero 2006-01-29 23:02:23
Popular in countries as far afield as Mexico, Italy and Russia, the Mandela Legacy Series of comics is to release its second edition soon, focusing on how Nelson Mandela became a leader in the early 1950s.Full Story...
Gauteng girls leave boys looking for answers 2006-01-30 02:16:59
The Gauteng department of education has honoured achievers who have obtained the highest marks in the 2005 matric examinations - and most of them are female.Full Story...
Matric achievers honoured by Mbeki 2006-01-29 07:12:37
Scholarships have been granted to 18 recipients through the newly established Thabo Mbeki Matric Merit Award Programme, for the academic excellence in they achieved their matric exams.Full Story...
Fynbos extinction feared in fire-ravaged Cape 2006-01-29 03:12:27
Certain species of fynbos in the unique Cape floral kingdom, as well as animal species, could have been wiped out by the devastating fires in the Western Cape.Full Story...
Court delays application to evict squatters 2006-01-27 04:38:39
A Cape High Court application by the Western Cape education department to have a group of 500 backyard dwellers and homeless people evicted from a disused school in Ravensmead has been postponed again.Full Story...
Pupils still victims of brutality at school 2006-01-26 23:29:42
Corporal punishment is still being meted out to schoolchildren at every grade, according to a non-governmental body.Full Story...
Mbeki declares hundreds of schools 'no-fees' 2006-01-27 01:53:28
President Thabo Mbeki has signed a bill which will see hundreds of schools declared no-fees schools, a news report has said.Full Story...
Koeberg the source of Khayelitsha's bad air? 2006-01-26 03:57:28
Researchers are to conduct more tests on caesium levels in Khayelitsha after they found "well above expected" levels of the metal there, says Eugene Cairncross, professor of chemical engineering at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.Full Story...
Kids still suffer under corporal punishment 2006-01-26 07:50:12
Childline South Africa has confirmed reports that corporal punishment - sometimes resulting in broken arms and serious wounds that require stitches - is still being meted out to school children at public as well as private schools.Full Story...
Cape Town lollipop men 'too old for the job' 2006-01-25 03:39:38
The dismissal of Bhasela Boyisi, a lollipop man from Gugulethu, has not been well received at schools in the area, because the newer and younger lollipop man is apparently not offering the same quality of service.Full Story...
Pupils targeted by armed robbers 2006-01-24 06:11:16
The school year at Portland High School in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, has got off to a violent start with pupils falling victim to four robberies within three days.Full Story...
School is renamed after generous old-boy 2006-01-24 03:00:53
More than 30 years since Tim Modise left the gates of the Agisanang Primary School in Ga-Rankuwa, outside Pretoria - now the school was renamed after the popular presenter.Full Story...
When the classroom is next to the bedroom 2006-01-24 03:16:16
The Lemmer family have a morning routine very much like every other in the Tshwane area. Only after beds have been made and breakfast served, the children don't have to leave their home to get to the classroom.Full Story...
The pros and cons of home schooling 2006-01-24 03:15:51
"If you want your child to become a convict or a conscript, then send them to a formal school."Full Story...
Zuma hits at government's 'cold heart' 2006-01-21 10:50:22
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has criticised the "cold-heartedness" of the government for demanding student loan repayments from unemployed graduates.Full Story...
Koeberg faces mounting repair pressure 2006-01-20 12:55:27
Eskom is considering using second-hand spares to fix a damaged Koeberg nuclear power station generator as blackouts and scheduled maintenance pile on the pressure for the energy provider to sort out its repair crisis.Full Story...
Dreadlock boys 'turned away from school' 2006-01-19 23:53:46
The South African Human Rights Commission has urged schools grappling with a clash between pupils' religious needs and school uniform codes to be creative and to seek amicable solutions.Full Story...
Teachers blame department for delays 2006-01-19 12:23:30
Teacher unions have lashed out at the education department for saying that it would take disciplinary action against principals who failed to order stationery and textbooks on time.Full Story...
'There was blood everywhere' 2006-01-19 01:11:14
A primary school in Atteridgeville, Pretoria has experienced the ultimate horror: an enraged parent shot the school secretary in the head before killing himself in full view of horrified pupils, some as young as five.Full Story...
Songs and tears usher in Grade 1s 2006-01-18 23:42:13
There was very little crying but plenty of singing at John Pama Primary in Nyanga, Cape Town, when the Grade 1s lined up for their first assembly at "big school".Full Story...
Rasool ready to crack the whip on bad schools 2006-01-19 04:09:39
Western Cape premier Ebrahim Rasool is talking tough on education: he wants the province's 40 worst schools to get their acts together and says a huge investment in building new schools means there can be no more excuses about children being taught under trees.Full Story...
Setting his sights on a BComm at 90 2006-01-19 01:11:05
Octogenarian Phillip Chauke - who just completed his matric and will continue studying for his BComm - dreams of a day when a visitor to this country asks him where his offices are, and he answers "Sandton".Full Story...
Lucky Grade 1 twins arrive in style 2006-01-18 05:06:12
Cape Town twins Tyler and Jordan Rhodes became the envy of their classmates when they arrived at their new primary school in a helicopter.Full Story...
KZN schools close doors on new pupils 2006-01-18 07:57:25
Hundreds of pupils have been turned away from KwaZulu-Natal schools due to overcrowding.Full Story...
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