Education

Human Rights Commission monitor closes primary school

Three teachers test positive for Covid-19

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News | 9 July 2020

New LGBTQI+ draft guidelines for schools critically flawed say education activists

Western Cape Education Department is evaluating comments on its Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Guidelines

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News | 9 July 2020

Court order means millions of children can return to pre-school centres

Judge has harsh words for ministers Lindiwe Zulu and Angie Motshekga

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Law | 6 July 2020

Education ministers “ducking accountability” argues Equal Education

Civil society wants courts to supervise government’s handling of school feeding

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News | 2 July 2020

Covid-19: SADTU members quit schools to mourn dead colleagues

Union calls for Eastern Cape schools to be closed

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Brief | 2 July 2020

Vandalism during lockdown drains Motherwell school’s budget

Parents have started patrolling the grounds to scare off vandals

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Brief | 29 June 2020

A few “hiccups” but school feeding on track, education department insists

Civil society takes Minister Motshekga to court for “empty promise”

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News | 29 June 2020

Teachers want schools closed until Covid-19 “peak” has passed

But MEC for Education says keeping schools closed will hurt the most vulnerable learners

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News | 25 June 2020

No high school places for thousands of Grade 7s in 2021

Online schooling proposed as a solution for education

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News | 25 June 2020

Covid-19: School principals ask President to close schools

“Our children and teachers are terrified”

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News | 24 June 2020

Covid-19: COSAS closes down Cape Town school

Matric students sent home

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News | 18 June 2020

Eastern Cape mud school “falling apart” say parents

Parents say they have been asking the department for a new school for over 20 years

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News | 18 June 2020

SANCO closes Crossroads school after teacher tests positive for Covid-19

Education department says unnecessary to shut down school

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Brief | 17 June 2020

Motshekga taken to court for “backtracked” promise to reinstate feeding programme

In some households it’s a choice between buying food or the data needed to study online

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Law | 14 June 2020

Motherwell school shut down by parents worried about safety

Eastern Cape Department of Education says 94% of schools had received personal protective equipment

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Brief | 12 June 2020