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Calico Academy is hosting a Culture Week featuring a children’s chess tournament, a cultural day and an art exhibition. First up, on Friday September 15 from 2pm to 4pm is a children’s chess tournament. It’s open to children up to the age…
Vandalised facilities, a disintegrating structure and now blackened walls as a result of an alleged arson attack — staff are at their wits’ end when it comes to maintaining the dignity of a long-neglected northern areas school. Educators…
As schools prepare for the 2021 academic year, the Competition Commission has vowed to take action against those not complying with the Competition Act and guidelines regarding procurement of uniforms and learning materials. The…
A school which was shut down for illegally operating last year, mushroomed in a different location two weeks ago. Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi made the revelation on Thursday. This is as he and law enforcement officials closed…
The government’s plan for the end-of-year examinations for grades 10 and 11 is a joke — except it will ruin the lives of tens of thousands of children and that makes Circular S7 of 2020’s “revised promotion requirements” no laughing…
Thousands of Eastern Cape pupils will not return to school on Monday as more grades across SA resume learning. Provincial education spokesperson Loyiso Pulumani said 3,581 pupils had been exempted from school due to comorbidities. This…
The Eastern Cape government has so far received over 5,600 comorbidity applications from teachers who say they are in a risk category too high to go to work during the Covid-19 pandemic. They say their underlying medical conditions could…
One out of four Eastern Cape pupils who require scholar transport are not being assisted. The province’s department of transport said it had managed to provide scholar transport to only 83,789 out of the 111,127 identified pupils. In a…
Teacher unions are pushing back against a move to dock their pay should schools be closed again due to the upsurge of coronavirus cases. This arose at a meeting between unions and the department of basic education on Friday when minister…
Having lost a significant portion of the school year to the lockdown, many parents and pupils believe the school year should be repeated in 2021. This is according to an Ask Afrika survey. The market research company conducted a survey to…
Water tanks holding thousands of litres of water are being installed in deprived Eastern Cape schools as part of an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the cash-strapped province. More than 1,500 schools were earmarked to receive…
The Eastern Cape health department is considering converting Makaula Senior Secondary School into an isolation facility after 204 people at the school tested positive for Covid-19. The KwaBhaca (formerly Mount Frere) school made headlines…
The basic education department’s decision to reopen schools must be assessed against the best interests of the child principle‚ lawyers for One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane have argued. Maimane is challenging the reopening…
After nearly 11 weeks, 90% of children are still not allowed to go to school or see their friends and family outside their homes as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown — compromising their education, welfare and mental health. The ongoing…
