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Gauteng Education MEC Lebogang Maile has warned municipalities that schools disconnected over unpaid electricity bills must be reconnected immediately or the provincial government will consider legal action.
CETA is the lead partner in a work-based skills and learning programme linked to the V&A Waterfront's expansion, which will develop an additional 5,000 square metres land over the next decade and a half.
The department has placed Badirile Secondary School under close monitoring as it works with police to address violence, bullying, gangsterism and poor discipline.
The recent release of the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) Learning and Teaching Support Material (LTSM) catalogue is a critical intervention aimed at addressing precisely this challenge.
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education has warned that the inability of most South African learners to read for meaning by the prescribed age constitutes a violation of their constitutional right to basic education.
More than 1.1 million learners in South Africa have experienced some form of violence at school, with 14% reporting physical violence by teachers, according to a report released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) during Child Protection Week.
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) says it has identified thousands of former beneficiaries who are collectively owed about R77 million in refunds arising from overpaid study loans, most of which date back to before 2010.
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says more than R8.3 million was misused in the Free State Office of the Premier’s (OTP) bursary programme, following findings of serious maladministration, irregular expenditure and the awarding of bursaries to ineligible beneficiaries.
By Thapelo Molefe
Student debt at South African universities has climbed to R59bn despite billions of rand spent annually through the National Student Financial Aid...
Former Auditor-General Terence Nombembe has been appointed chairperson of the University of the Witwatersrand Council for a three-year term, with the option of renewal, the university said on Thursday.
