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The country’s best-performing and most-improved education districts and schools will be recognised at the 12th National Education Excellence Awards in Sandton on Friday, the Department of Basic Education said.
The Energy and Water Sector Education and Training Authority (EWSETA) has appointed Kedibone Moroane-Nkhobo as its new chief executive officer, saying the appointment comes as it seeks to strengthen skills development and stakeholder partnerships in the energy and water sectors.
Students’ Representative Councils (SRCs) at four major universities have called for the R52,000 annual NSFAS accommodation cap to be scrapped, saying that funding shortfalls are driving poor and working-class students into debt and putting their studies at risk.
Speaking at the Skills for the Economy and Industry Dialogue, Gungubele said South Africa faced a disconnect between employers reporting shortages of digital skills and young graduates struggling to find work.
According to the Department of Higher Education and Training, South Africa produced 19,536 qualified artisans in 2022/23, while the National Development Plan sets a target of 30,000 qualified artisans annually by 2030. The shortage of qualified tradespeople is a brake on development. But we make a serious mistake when we allow the artisan shortage to define the entire conversation about skills.
Court proceedings were held on Monday in the criminal case involving the alleged sexual abuse of a learner at Karabo Primary School, with the accused educator remaining in custody, the Gauteng Department of Education said on Tuesday.
As millions of public-school learners returned to classrooms on Tuesday, a Hammanskraal mother was still waiting for her 16-year-old son to come home from an initiation school.
The University of Limpopo (UL) has trained teachers to recognise early signs of vision problems among learners and refer them for professional eye examinations before untreated conditions begin to affect their classroom performance.
Learners from seven schools in the Cederberg will take part in a scientific experiment examining how exposure to space affects the germination and growth of rooibos seeds.
