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The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) has raised concerns about a number of pupils who have not been placed in schools before the start of the 2024 academic year.

As teachers prepare for the start of the 2024 academic year, learners will be back to school Wednesday.

As teachers prepare for the start of the 2024 academic year, learners will be back to school Wednesday.

‘If we want reading to have improved by a certain grade, weve got to start before formal reading begins’: Basil Manuel, executive director of the National Professional Teachers Organisation of SA.

The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) says parents and teachers need to work together to ensure a safe teaching environment for both pupils and teachers.

We concentrate more on European history and in latter years American history and things like that. We, in fact, need to be looking at the continent first, develop a strong sense of the African culture within our education system,’ says Basil Manuel, executive director of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa.

A round-up of news updates, including the call by President Ramaphosa for the speeding up of decolonisation of SA education.

Education experts and political leaders have welcomed a recommendation by the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) for child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape to be declared a state of disaster.

“We must and can do better. ”So says teaching union Naptosa’s executive director, Basil Manuel, reflecting on the state of schools around the country.

Matrics in Nelson Mandela Bay say they breezed through their first examination, English paper one, despite the clock ticking against them.