Education

Pressure mounts on govt as 60% of adults don’t want schools reopened

KZN high school teacher suspended for ‘making advances on learners’

Opening of schools: Motshekga awaits Cabinet approval for ‘consensus position’

Higher education academic year likely to end in March 2021, says Nzimande

‘Violence is the only language our government understands’ – Educators’ union

Why pay ‘R404m’ to lease tablets when you can buy for R264m, EC dept asked

High school learner dies after poisoning herself in Hammanskraal

Motshekga correct in insisting schools stay open during Covid, say experts

Limpopo, KZN postpone return of Grade 3, 10 pupils

Teachers’ pay could be docked as Motshekga, unions tussle

Angie Motshekga meets Cabinet as unions propose matrics return to school on 17 August

Limpopo special schools far from ready for full reopening

Mmusi Maimane launches e-learning centre in Cape Town for Mandela Day

Grade Rs recording lowest attendance at Gauteng schools – Lesufi

Covid-19: More than 16,000 teachers have comorbidities, says Motshekga

Schools should stay open because ‘nobody knows when peak will end’, says Fedsas

Pupils mostly ignore Cosas Limpopo’s plea to abandon classes

Children should go back to school, Human Rights Commission says

School year not ‘lost’, redesign system to make up for lost time – experts

Govt needs rework its education system due to time lost – experts

Pupils are being used as pawns in a political game, says analyst

Eastern Cape DBE says to deregister children if you want them to stay at home

Naptosa also calls for schools to be closed after Motshekga cancels meeting

‘Ghost students’ haunt NSFAS

Sadtu, education dept in standoff over schools

New regulations say pupils should not be sent home alone if they don’t have a mask

Sadtu resolves that schools close until after Covid-19 peak

It’s Maimane vs Motshekga over school closures amid virus peak

UCT’s historic vote appoints two women as chair and deputy simultaneously

We are not opposed to the reopening of ECDs, says Zulu

Hundreds of Limpopo govt staff on go-slow to return to work

MEC disgusted by racist graffiti at Limpopo school, matrics refuse to go to class

Stop disrupting schools, we’ll take you to court – Motshekga, CEM

Top Limpopo school gets flak over racist remark on toilet wall

WATCH: Limpopo education dept condemns incident of learner wasting hand sanitiser

No plans yet to cancel university year, says Nzimande

Blade Nzimande appoints task team to probe NSFAS systems

Govt considering ‘Artemisia afar’ (‘Umhlonyana’) as anti-virus therapeutic – Nzimande

St Andrew’s closes temporarily following positive coronavirus case

‘Call it quits on academic year’

Teen arrested following alleged rape of Grade 7 learner sent home for not having face mask

Provinces ignore govt ruling on resumption of classes

Video: Motshekga finds herself in a Catch-22 Covid-19 problem

Limpopo parents barricade school gates during phasing in of other grades

EC postpones return of Grades R, 6 and 11 due to increased cases

Court rules that all private preschools may open immediately

Learners who aren’t returning won’t be deregistered, says Lesufi

SA schools brace themselves as more pupils head back

1,718 schools vandalised during lockdown – Motshekga

Teacher dies after collapsing at Gauteng school

Unisa ruling ‘enormous victory for Afrikaans’ – AfriForum

Three classrooms set alight in the North West

Independent schools body asks Ramaphosa to allow all grades to return

KZN education department says no to return of Grade R pupils on Monday

Teacher unions not keen on more grades returning to school

Courts

DBE accused of dragging its feet while millions of children starve

Curro has zero tolerance for racism

Sadtu concerned about ‘hidden’ Covid-19 cases at schools

Education dept moves to allay virus fears, Motshekga to meet MECs

Police, pupils clash at Durban school after teacher tests positive

We won’t be able to cope when grades return, teachers say in alarming survey

Court victory for Afrikaans at Unisa

Limpopo teachers accused of using fake sick notes to bunk class

Education dept won’t recruit additional teachers ahead of school reopening, says DA

Limpopo schools get 431 water tankers at schools

Limpopo teachers allegedly using fake doctor’s notes to avoid returning to school

44 Covid-19 cases confirmed across North West schools

UFS SRC calls for removal of ‘exclusionary and oppressive’ term

‘Education is more than receiving content. It is about interaction’ – incoming Wits VC

UCT releases damning report into Prof Mayosi’s death

Incoming Wits VC already knows ‘inequality and exclusion’ will be his big challenge

Hoërskool Driehoek teachers set a poor example for students says department

Overweight or diabetic teachers are at risk of catching Covid-19, says expert

Glitches again hit Gauteng’s online school applications

Cosas threatens Limpopo school shutdown over virus concerns