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The Eastern Cape department of education’s inability to spend its infrastructural grant while schools are in dire need of infrastructure repairs and maintenance is a disgrace and criminal, ActionSA’s provincial chair Athol Trollip says. The Dispatch reported this week that the National Treasury announced in a notice last week that the education infrastructure grant of R100m, meant to be used by the provincial education department for the current financial year ending on March 31, was going ...
In a province where scores of schools need upgrades, maintenance and repairs, the Eastern Cape department of education has to forfeit R100million intended for infrastructural development because it wasn't able to spend the money within the financial year.
The family of a 16-year-old boy are in shock over his death, after he was allegedly beaten up by two fellow pupils, a boy and a girl, outside and inside his school’s premises in Butterworth on Tuesday. The fight was allegedly ignited by a tiff on Facebook. Iviwe Tyalana, a grade 11 pupil at Lamplough Senior Secondary School, died in hospital on Wednesday after having been admitted in a serious condition.
Police fired rubber bullets to disperse parents and children from Pefferville Primary School in East London who braved Wednesday's rainy weather to protest against the “infringement of their right to education”.
As thousands of university’s first-year students get ready for their higher education studies, Eastern Cape universities said they have mechanisms in place to support those living with disabilities to continue furthering their studies at tertiary level. While the total number of the enrolment of this year’s students with disabilities at the province’s four universities is yet to be confirmed, owing to current registration, Nelson Mandela University seemed to be the preferred choice by stude...