Hey everyone. I`m currently studying to be a teacher at a public university in South Africa, but I want to transfer my studies to a distance learning institution. UNISA won`t tell me which modules I will be exempted from until I register with them and pay my study fees (which is a major risk I...
Hundreds of SA Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) members picketed outside the education department's Durban office on Wednesday.
They called for Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga and her director general Bobby Soobrayan to resign.
They carried placards reading: "Angie has failed to...
Parents of school-going children in Gauteng will have to finalise admissions earlier than usual.
On Monday, the province's education MEC Barbara Creecy announced that admissions for the 2014 academic year would start on Tuesday.
Parents were encouraged to go to their nearest school to...
Textbook shortages and crammed classrooms are the biggest problems facing schools, a study revealed on Friday.
Pupils polled by consumer insights company Pondering Panda said the top three problems were a lack of textbooks, overcrowded classes, and incompetent teachers.
The study was...
Truant teachers were absent for close to 7.5 million days last year, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
"We have the highest rate of absenteeism in SADC [the Southern African Development Community]. We're at 19 days [average per teacher] a year. It's huge. An average of 10...
http://mg.co.za/article/2012-08-15-sa-to-have-14-years-of-school
They can't even do the current twelve years right, now they want another two years to screw up? :wtf:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/12/31/ban-on-model-c-bonuses
So the crap lazy teachers will get the same pay as the hard working conscientious teachers.
Fark that, I think they should just start more private schools and leave the crap ANC schools to their own failure.
This country is...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100819124407819C124915
If I was one of the parents of these guys... and a protester attacked one of my kids....
Well... let's just say there would be hell to pay.
Freaking scumbags.