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Teacher shortage forces East London school to send pupils home

A top East London school had to temporarily shut its doors on Friday after a shortage of teachers plunged it into turmoil. Parkside’s John Bisseker Secondary School halted teaching and learning after the provincial education department failed to fill several teaching posts. The school governing body (SGB) said it had decided to take action after pupils, who were without teachers in their class, started to roam around causing disruption.

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EC Education MEC admits 427 schools with pit latrines in province

EC education department made little progress in addressing the pit toilet crisis in schools, with only 21 toilets removed in the past year

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Sadtu up in arms over pending centralisation of school nutrition budget

The SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) in the Eastern Cape and education minister Angie Motshekga could be heading for a collision over the mooted centralisation of the national school nutrition programme budget, which it says is likely to be reintroduced in the province in 2024.

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Nightmare continues at Eastern Cape schools, says DA

Crumbling infrastructure, overcrowding, teacher shortages, inadequate classrooms, crime and sanitation issues.These are some of the problems identified by MPLs conducting oversight visits at Eastern Cape schools.

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Legislature reps fan out across Eastern Cape for public participation meetings

A poorly attended public participation meeting in Gqeberha on Wednesday supported two proposed bills on environmental management and parks and tourism.

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Children go hungry amid school nutrition funding fiasco

An unemployed East London parent has told of the painful sight of pupils returning home from school to sleep on empty stomachs after a delay in the national school nutrition programme (NSNP) left many without their only meal of the day.

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Jobs-for-cash scandal hits EC education department

The Eastern Cape education department has come under fire for failing to act after explosive allegations emerged of education officials allegedly selling teaching posts.

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Bhisho education oversight group chased away from schools

In the past two weeks as the new academic year began, multiparty members of the Bhisho legislature have travelled the length and breadth of the province to visit schools, but some of the visits met with resistance.

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BACKWARD SLIDE: The number of mud schools in the Eastern Cape has increased since 2018

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By Gugu Phandle - 14 June 2021
The Eastern Cape department of education is using cheap and inferior material to build schools and as a result is unable to meet set targets...
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