Education

Parents say education department botched the merger of two KZN schools

When learners and staff arrived at the new school last Wednesday, they were sent them back to their old school

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News | 26 January 2022

Dunoon matrics beat the odds

Piles of distinctions for learners from crowded Cape Town settlement

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Feature | 26 January 2022

Water crisis disrupts schools in Nelson Mandela Bay

Taps have been dry for ten days in KwaNobuhle

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Brief | 26 January 2022

R23 million Joburg library still closed after three years

City says JDA must hand it over, but JDA says it was handed over in 2018

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News | 21 January 2022

Donors to the rescue of special needs school looted in July unrest

Golden Steps School in Verulam successfully opens for 2022 school year

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News | 20 January 2022

Half a school has had to shut down because the Eastern Cape education department has failed to fix it

Classrooms are in such a bad state that learners are in danger

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News | 19 January 2022

Rural Limpopo parents battle to keep their school open

They are worried their children will have to walk too far if the school is closed but the provincial education department says it has applied for scholar transport

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Brief | 17 January 2022

Protesting Orange Farm residents want special needs school converted to a mainstream one

Parents complain that learners living in the nearby informal settlement have to cross the busy Golden Highway to get to school

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News | 14 January 2022

JHB parents queue to place their children in schools

MEC Lesufi says number of unplaced learners is down to 700 this year compared to 35,000 last year

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News | 12 January 2022

Teachers threaten strike after Limpopo government slashes allowance

Allowance to educators in remote schools to be stopped in January

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News | 10 December 2021

Qunu residents’ hopes dashed by failed government project

Government’s R8-million Integrated Energy Centre has not lived up to any of its promises

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News | 2 December 2021

Researchers surveyed schools in a Gauteng township. This is what they found

Activists launch campaign against overcrowding

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News | 29 November 2021

Young gardeners are building a fynbos corridor across the Cape Flats

Greenpop’s project aims to “bring Kirstenbosch” to schools

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Photo Essay | 22 November 2021

Principals are drowning in the education department’s admin demands

“I live in perpetual fear of missing deadlines and other principals say the same”

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News | 12 November 2021

Willowvale is where government projects go to die

“If we want things done here, we either protest or do them ourselves” says a resident of this part of the Eastern Cape

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News | 9 November 2021