Education

No one knows when building will restart on the Manenberg School of Skills

The construction tender was ruled invalid because of bungling by a Western Cape government department

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

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