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Pandemic hobbles learners’ futures 21 Jan 2021 Left behind: A 2016 study found 78% of South African grade four learners could not read for meaning. This existing crisis is deepened during lockdowns, when learners’ schooling is severely disrupted, leading parents and teachers to worry about the long-term implications of absence from school. (PeopleImages) The executive director of the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa, Basil Manuel, told the Mail & Guardian that grade one should have been one of the classes to go back to school along with grade 12 because of h...

Marking of matric exam papers on track By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - Education experts, activists and unions said they are confident that matric marking processes are still on track to be finalised by the weekend, with some centres already completed. Stellenbosch University’s curriculum studies department chairperson, Professor Michael le Cordeur, said he was confident with the basic education department's progress on marking of Grade 12 scrips even with everything that happened last year. Le Cordeur said he was aware that the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Educ...

Teacher unions are outraged by the department of basic education’s decision to get school management teams (SMTs) and teachers to return to school weeks before pupils arrive.

Teacher unions set against reopening of schools as COVID-19 cases surge South Africans will be eagerly waiting to hear what Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has to say when she addresses the nation on Friday around her department’s plans to reopen schools. © teka77/123rf.com 86 days ago JOHANNESBURG - South Africans will be eagerly waiting to hear what Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has to say when she addresses the nation on Friday around her department’s plans to reopen schools. Mo...

The National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) has described the announcement on the postponement of the reopening of schools as a “mixed bag”.