Education

Government criticised for blaming Covid for the country’s literacy crisis

Department of basic education needs to take responsibility for “devastating” literacy rates, say opposition and civil society

SA’s children have lost a decade of reading progress, study shows

International study confirms that eight out of ten grade 4 learners still can’t read for meaning

Makhanda schools press on despite failed national reading plan

Parents block school entrance in Cofimvaba after scholar transport cancelled

Most of the affected learners live in St Mark’s, about 26 kilometres from Isikhoba Nombewu Technical School

Mud classrooms crumble while building materials sit on site

Contractor appointed to build prefab classrooms in Qombolo village disappeared six years ago

Revealed: how Angie Motshekga’s reading plan failed SA’s children

President Ramaphosa announced a “massive reading campaign” in 2019. It never got off the ground.

Eastern Cape principal accused of beating learners with a hose pipe

The principal is one of six teachers in the Eastern Cape currently under investigation by the department for use of corporal punishment

For years, subsidies have been withheld from poorest Eastern Cape schools

Schools now set to receive missing R872.5-million

Makhanda literacy project shows dramatic results

Whistle Stop School pulls learners out of class for short periods to teach them to read

Parents and learners close Eastern Cape school

Kariega school is short of teachers, say protesters

Learners at KZN special schools return to class after boycott

Provincial education department has promised to provide ten buses

Graaff-Reinet college closed by student protest

Students complain of delay in payment of NSFAS allowance

The Presidential Employment Stimulus has been a huge success, so why isn’t it a priority?

The massive, ambitious programme offers participants - and the economy - real hope

School buses are back after learner picket

Humansdorp learners missed school for two weeks because of lack of transport

Bid to resolve crisis in KwaZulu-Natal special schools

Learners say they are not taken seriously because they live with disabilities

Eastern Cape learners stuck at home without school transport

Department says it does not know how many learners need transport