State funds for student expansion

The number of university students in South Africa will grow by 53,000 to reach 837,000 in 2011 – and the government has allocated an additional R700 million (US$69 million) to accommodate the expansion – Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel announced in his 2009 budget speech this month. He also gave the student financial aid scheme [...]

University of Pretoria joins World Digital Library Project

The University of Pretoria’s Department of Library Services has joined the World Digital Library Project, making it one of the 27 institutions in the world and the only one in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to belong to this project.
Proposed in 2005 by the Library of Congress in cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific [...]

Debating the state of Education in South Africa

On 29 January 2009 the Sunday Times Columnist, Professor Jonathan Jansen challenged all parties to answer a series of questions in a column entitled Vital Questions for Politicians: 
1. What will your party do if an MEC for education in one of the provinces shows blatant disregard for a scheduled meeting of the minister of education to [...]

Nick Taylor’s paper on what is wrong in South African Education and how to fix it.

Nick Taylor, CEO of JET Education Services, presented a paper on 21 November 2008 to the CSR in Education Conference, TSiBA Education, Cape Town, on “What’s wrong with our schools and how to fix them”.
The paper outlines the three main shortcomings in the system, attempts to understand why these problems are endemic in South African schools, and suggests [...]

The South African Department of Education plans to focus on infrastructure shortfalls

“Lack of education infrastructure in rural areas, will be a focal point of the Department of Education over the next five years”, the South African Minister of Education Naledi Pandor announced on Monday.
Infrastructural inadequacies, national, provincial and district education incompetence, and teacher incapacity will be addressed over the next five years.
To read more go to Michael Apple’s article [...]

South Africa to get 400 new teachers from Kenya

More than 400 science and mathematics teachers from Kenya are soon expected to start working in South Africa.

This follows an announcement by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for opportunities that could see the teachers earn 10 times more in South Africa than what is offered in Kenya.

The recruitment is being done by TSC on behalf of South Africa’s [...]

NEPAD is planning a project to link schools to the Internet

NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development), an African Union programme focusing on reducing poverty, is planning a project to link schools to the Internet.
A pilot of this e-schools-initiative was recently completed in  16 African countries.
To read more go to the article on VOANews by Clicking Here!