Education

Some crèches never got the promised Covid relief funds, and now it’s too late

Early Childhood Development relief programme comes to an end

Funds shortage leads Eastern Cape education department to investigate Mthatha school principal

Learners have protested over a lack of desks and textbooks

Illegal connections to blame for leaving learners in the dark, says Eskom

Staff of Bloekombos High School make photocopies at neighbouring schools for exams

R3.05 per child: Eastern Cape school battles to feed learners

“It is not always possible to put the stipulated meal on the learners’ plates” says principal

R26-million Lehae Library opens seven years after construction started

Concerns over safety remain after armed robbery weeks before opening

School land occupiers demand relocation to serviced sites

East London shack dwellers say they won’t move unless it is somewhere with water, electricity and toilets

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