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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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Thursday Morning Spice
26 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The 15 most attractive hobbies to women, Firefighters battle Midrand blaze, Killing of Japanese boy sparks soul searching in China, The World’s ‘Most expensive bag’ debuted in Paris, and Eric Adams becomes first sitting NYC mayor indicted.
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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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Since April, Nearly 100 Girls Aged 10-14 Gave Birth In The Eastern Cape
15 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Eastern Cape schools continue to battle with the plight of teenage pregnancies and young mothers.
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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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Monday Morning Spice
13 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Over a thousand people marched for better education in South Africa, the Dark heart of chess is revealed in schools and nightclubs, the World will be paying more for olive oil this year, and Switzerland won a chaotic Eurovision Song Contest.
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University Of Zimbabwe Lecturers To Earn A Meagre $2.50 An Hour
22 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The previously esteemed institution is now facing an exodus of lecturers.
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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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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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Do South African Universities Produce Billionaires?
19 Oct 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
There are 52 African-born billionaires globally, of whom only 23 still live on African soil.
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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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Motshekga Insist SA Children Can Read, Can Combine M, A, And N To Spell MAN
19 May 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Angie and her incompetent ilk should have been kicked to the curb ages ago, but as long as the cadre machine keeps churning out voters with no future, she seems happy.
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We Get To Know Banele Lukhele – UCT Online High School’s Executive Head Of School And Chief Academic Officer
20 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
A Q&A with Banele Lukhele, UCT Online High School’s new Executive Head of School and Chief Academic Officer.
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Not A Bad Gig – Teachers In Top 5% Of Earners And Get Months Of Holiday Each Year
05 Dec 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Teachers earn very decently, according to data from Stellenbosch University’s Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP).
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Tell This Matric’s Story To Your Snotty Teenager
03 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For some students, just getting to school to write the end-of-year exams is an exercise in endurance.
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Have Teenagers? Read This To Understand What You’re Dealing With
09 Sep 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Terri Apter is a psychologist who unpacks how scientists have, within the past two decades, been able to decode the mysteries of the teenage brain.
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Latest Global University Rankings Is Good News For UCT
18 Aug 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Out of the 1 000 universities deemed the best in the 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities, nine are here in South Africa.
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It’s School Holidays – How Does Your Child Keep Busy?
01 Jul 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s the end of term and school is out. It’s time for a well-earned break, but how will you keep your child occupied during this time?
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The Joys Of Online Learning
20 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Why joining UCT Online High School is the right move.
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Is Your Child Disciplined Enough To Learn Online?
13 May 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s a digital world and we can all learn to play in it.
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Maritzburg College Urine Pit Suspension Is Not A Great Look
27 Jan 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The incident in question took place during Maritzburg College’s grade eight orientation camp, with prefects and house leaders since suspended.
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Confusion Over Allegations 162 North West Schoolkids Abducted By ‘Drunkards’
20 Jan 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Reports allege that 162 schoolkids have been abducted from a school in the North West by drunk people posing as parents.
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Six SA Universities Crack A Spot In World’s Top 500
27 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The University of Cape Town is still considered the best institution in Africa, with five other South African universities ranked among the world’s top 500.
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UCT Is Looking To Hire 300 New Staff Members For Its New Online High School Venture
08 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The University of Cape Town, in partnership with Cape Town-based education technology company Valenture Institute, is currently hiring for a ton of positions in their new online high school.
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What We Know About Elon Musk’s Mysterious ‘Ad Astra’ School
15 Sep 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Elon Musk let slip in 2014 that he had started his own private school, which he initiated mostly for his own children.
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How You Can Sponsor A Gifted High School Student’s Education For R251 A Month
29 Jul 2021 by Kiernan / No Comments
As we take stock of the events of the past few weeks, big-hearted South Africans around the country are asking, “how can we help?”
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‘Lost Generation’ Fear As SA Grade 3s On A Par With 2019 Grade 2s
21 Jun 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The COVID-19 pandemic is really testing our education system, and it might cause a ‘lost generation’ of educated South Africans in the coming years.
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Racism Allegations At Mpumalanga School Leave Parents Brawling On The Streets [Video]
15 Jun 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
A clash between parents on Monday morning has resulted in Witbank Technical High School suspending classes for a week.
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The Sad State Of The Matric Maths Pass Rate In SA
24 Feb 2021 by Carrie / No Comments
South African students continue to perform poorly in subjects like mathematics, with fewer and fewer writing the standard maths curriculum.
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