South Africa News News South Africa » Education: Excellence and Credibility in Higher Education
Attendees at the All-Africa Rankings Initiative hosted by the University of Cape Town (UCT) left day two on a proverbial cliffhanger. The question that remained was: How do we define excellence in ...
News South Africa » Education: Are South African teaching posts up for sale? School staff say an old problem hasn’t gone away
Questions about the integrity of educator appointments remain unresolved in South Africa ten years after a ministerial task team investigated the alleged sale of teaching posts.
News South Africa » Education: True South Africa | South Africa's Education Standards Have Not Collapsed. The Evidence Says So
Every January, as matric results are released, South Africans seem to have the same argument. The pass mark is too low. Matric has been dumbed down. Standards have collapsed. Universities are turning ...
News South Africa » Education: South Africa Economic Update, Edition 15 "Learning: Overdue Reforms and Emerging Priorities in Basic Education"
The fifteenth edition of the South Africa Economic Update, Learning: Overdue Reforms and Emerging Priorities in Basic Education, discusses South Africa’s economic prospects and focuses on basic ...
News South Africa » Education: South Africa’s young education researchers need networks to share experience more than pressure to produce outputs
Researchers in the education sphere benefit from collaboration and idea-sharing. cgstock/Shutterstock South Africa has for many years been a strong player in several areas of world-class research.
News South Africa » Education: South Africa: Western Cape Government welcomes Supreme Court of Appeal judgment on Western Cape’s education reforms
The Western Cape Government welcomes today's judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissing the appeals brought by Equal Education and the South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) against ...
News South Africa » Education: Africa: Insufficient Domestic Funding Hinders Education Progress
(Abuja) – Most African governments have consistently failed to meet global and regional education funding targets to ensure quality public education, Human Rights Watch said today on the African Union ...
News South Africa » Education: Billionaire private school in South Africa offers top education for R0.00 with a 99% Matric pass rate
This private school in Cape Town is completely free and supports its students for up to 19 years with top education, transport, tuition, meals, and healthcare.
News South Africa » Education: Africa’s lost generation: The impact of school closures on girls’ education
As children across Africa return to school this week, they might find a very different landscape to the one they left behind before the pandemic. Classroom sizes in some schools will be smaller due to ...