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DA MP says they have to beg an uncaring ANC govt to step in and provide necessary resources to fulfil children’s constitutional right

Motshekga's budget comes after food delivery challenges last month, which left pupils in some areas of KwaZulu-Natal without meals.

The Hotels for Trees Foundation partners with hotels to convert daily room cleaning during hotel stays into newly planted trees...

The Department of Basic Education has voiced its concern about the poor performance of pupils evaluated in African home languages for the Progress in International Reading Literacy assessments.

An international study confirms that eight out of ten grade 4 learners still can’t read for meaning in 2021

International study confirms that eight out of ten grade 4 learners still can’t read for meaning

News update: As part of the response measures to the recent placing of the country on the greylisting, the Financial Intelligence Centre has been allocated additional funding of more than R200 million

While Covid-19 was partly to blame for the decline in reading results, there is no nationally funded plan to catch up on learning that was lost.

UCT Professor Ursula Hoadley says the Western Cape is the only province that has launched a programme to recoup teaching and learning time lost during Covid-19.

This agreement aims to enhance collaboration and the exchange of expertise in the field of education between the two ministries