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Education
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SA Parents To Swallow A Bitter Pill As Warning Issued Over 2025 Private School Fees
01 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
School fees really have a way of taking it out of you, and come next year, parents sending their kids to private schools are going to spend a lot more time squeezing.
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Cape Town’s Dentsu School Of Influence Has An Open Call For Entries For Aspiring Influencers And Content Creators
29 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Who wants to be an influencer? Cape Town’s Dentsu School Of Influence is open for applicants!
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Two Stellenbosch University Students Uncover Massive Fraud At SASSA’s SRD Grant System
17 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
“Sometimes a system bug is so bad that it brings to light fraud or gross incompetence.”
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Bishops Boarding School Shock As Student Hospitalised After Alleged Bullying Attack
17 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Parents voiced concern over the assault, slamming the school’s silence and expressing fears that the incident might be swept under the rug to shield Bishops’ prestigious reputation.
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Two South African Schools Ranked Among The World’s Top 150 Private Institutions
16 Oct 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The Schools Index is the most comprehensive global private schools list available out there.
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Prestigious Pretoria School Principal Accused Of Inappropriate Conduct, Sniffing Hair And Praying Over Pupils
19 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
One of Pretoria’s most prestigious schools was thrust into the spotlight last week amid explosive allegations of indecency and financial misconduct, with the scandal swirling around none other than the principal himself.
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American Schools Enlist Genius Way To Keep Students Off Their Phones During Lessons
06 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Anything that limits access to phones is a positive.
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South Africa’s Higher Education Landscape Is About To Get A Major Shake-Up
04 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
In the next decade, we’ll be rolling out the red carpet for not one, not two, but five brand-new universities.
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Ambitious R3-Billion Pretoria Project For A Private Afrikaans University In The Works
26 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
“We are going to build a giant monument for Afrikaans higher education,” said Henk Schalekamp, the managing director of Kanton.
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Yet Another Cape Town School Rugby Derby Ended In Violence [Video]
21 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
If you thought that granny snot-klapping a young rugby player during the under-19 Bishops vs SACS game last week was the worst of iffy field brawls, consider yourself wrong.
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Teenage Boy Arrested For Murder Of Teen Girl Found In Caledon School Closet
19 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
More than a week after grade 10 pupil Deveney Nel was found dead in a storeroom at her school, Hoërskool Overburg, in Caledon police managed to arrest the person suspected of killing her.
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Cape Town School Kids Caught Auctioning Off Black Classmates From A Cage
29 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The video of the “slave auction” has been shared widely online.
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Stellenbosch University Receives R50 Million From Anonymous Donor’s Estate
10 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The R50 million is specifically earmarked for bursaries allocated to financially disadvantaged undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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Cape Flats Crime Fighters Alarmed By Rising Student Gang Activity During School Holidays
08 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Crime fighters have even raised the alarm over the use of hectic drugs among children on the Cape Flats after an eight-year-old boy was found high on four types of drugs including cocaine.
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Other South African Universities Are Catching Up To Wits And UCT In Global Rankings
19 Jun 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Even though these institutions are still ahead of others in South Africa, their rankings haven’t improved much and even slipped a bit, allowing others to rise up.
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Seth Receives A Letter From Afar – Sir Toby’s Lament On The State Of Modern Old Boys Clubs
03 Jun 2024 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Seth, my dear boy, I fear this is a runaway fire, a full-blown emergency, fueled in equal parts by fear, greed and rampant semigration.
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School Security Guard Opens Fire On Pupils Seeking WiFi, Killing One
27 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
In a devastating incident that happened on Thursday, a security guard shot and killed a 13-year-old boy, while injuring his friend, when they came to school seeking an internet connection.
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“Appalling And Deeply Concerning” Says NSPCA As Northern Cape School Offers ‘Shoot A Lion’ Fundraiser
19 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The animal welfare organisation condemned the ludicrous fundraising auction held by the little-known school in Jan Kempdorp, which offered a “lioness hunt” worth R40,000 as a prize.
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Indiana College Under Fire For Bondage Class Teaching ‘Safe Rope Tying’ And ‘Handcuff Skills’
09 Feb 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Kids these days are doing everything anyway, so you might as well teach them the ropes, no?
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Uproar Over ‘Excessive’ Sex Education Booklet At Parow Primary School
30 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If parents don’t talk frankly with their kids about sex, then the education system will be forced to.
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Stellenbosch University’s SRC Says ‘House Of Horrors’ Res Rooms Discovered In 2020 Already
30 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
News broke last week of several secret rooms at one of Stellenbosch University’s male residences, containing a disturbing selection of drawings and photographs that appeared to show decades of assault and sexual abuse.
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Meet The Eastern Cape Principal With An Emphasis On “Human Beings” To Change The Tide On SA’s Pass Rate
22 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
You’re going to want to meet Mncedi Mtengwana, the principal of Solomon Mahlangu High School in KwaNobuhle, Kariega, Eastern Cape, who is setting the bar at a stunning height for low-income community schools.
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How Much Does It Costs To Buy A Fake Degree Online?
19 Jan 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Is it really worth it faking your degree to get a job that you clearly are not qualified for?
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South Africa Included In Top 10 Of The World’s Toughest Education Systems
18 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Just don’t tell yout kids that South Africa has one of the toughest education systems in the world as it could end up in them claiming more ‘mental health days’ than you are willing to allow.
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Two Jozi Schools Join Kearsney College In Plus-R200k Club – The 2024 Fees For South Africa’s Most Expensive Private Schools
12 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The current reality is that one of South Africa’s most expensive private day schools broke through the R240,000 barrier. That’s for a single matric year, by the way.
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A Final “Good Luck” To The Springboks [Video]
27 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Bring it home boys, we’re all behind you!
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Princess Diana’s Younger Brother Is Writing A Book About ‘Culture Of Cruelty’ At His Boarding School
13 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Charles Spencer had a really terrible time at boarding school, and now he’s turning his ‘cruel’ lessons into a book.
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What Exactly Happened With The Mysterious And Tragic Death Of That Pretoria Teen Found On A School Field
11 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
While doing his rounds at 8AM on the morning of July 4, a security guard made the shocking discovery of a 16-year-old’s lifeless body on the school’s rugby field.
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The Best University In South Africa Improved 64 Places Since The Previous Ranking
30 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
This university jumped ahead 64 places since the previous edition of the rankings, ensuring it doesn’t lose its top spot to any other South African institution.
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UK’s Strictest Head Teacher Speaks Out Against Kids Identifying As Animals, Moons, And Holograms
23 Jun 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Dubbed “Britain’s strictest head teacher”, she’s warning that parents need to move their children out of schools that tolerate their children self-identifying as animals, moons, and even holograms in classrooms.
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