Would you resort to sex work to pay for your education? It’s not as bad as you think…..
Everyone had a class in their school career that they absolutely loathed. You couldn’t wait for it to be over and you spent most of your breaks shouting profanities at the poor teacher. When this student sent his English teacher a crude letter concerning her class, she did what every English teacher does best: correct all the mistakes in a bright red pen.
Along the beautiful back roads of Durbanville, home to many of the Cape’s finest wine farms, is where Fair Cape Dairies’ 2000 hectare sized farm can be found.
Online education in South Africa has joined a global revolution with Apple’s latest decision to open up iTunes U Course to another 70+ countries from around the world.
Snowden became one of the world’s most wanted men when he leaked information about the extent of the surveillance power of the NSA.
Angie Motshekga, our minister for basic education, released what seemed a very pleasing matric pass rate of 78.2% yesterday, but experts have claimed that these results are not of any value.
This is an absolute deusy!
A Texas-based Spanish teacher, Cristy Nicole Deweese, has come under fire from the school board, after students discovered she had posed nude in some full-frontal photos for playboy.
The Department of Basic Educati0n yesterday issued a circular (you can read the circular here) that prohibits the use of open source software in schools that offer the subjects “Computer Applications Technology” (CAT) and “Information Technology” (IT). The move has massive implications for the quality of education in those subjects in South Africa, and essentially stifles the development of technology professionals in this country.
Some weeks ago a video of a revolting Johannesburg child assaulting a Glenvista High teacher with a chair and a broomstick surfaced. The victim of the assault handled himself like a champ, resisting what must have been a fairly strong urge to extend a backhand to the twerp. We have the video for those of you who missed it.
Welcome to Glenvista High School in Gauteng, where a pupil named Anthony attacked his teacher with a plastic chair, and with a broom, much to the delight of his class mates.
Tshwane will be the first metro in Africa to be fully covered by wifi within three years – at least, that’s what they say.
China buying up SA newspapers. NUM won’t be at the Marikana commemoration. Obama condemns Egypt violence. Teachers ‘duck and dive’ bullets in Cape Town. Agliotti to take on SARS. Google/Microsoft war. Weekend sports multiple for you to cash in.
Over recent weeks there has been an increase in gang violence in the Manenberg area and as a result 14 schools will close their doors on Thursday and Friday as they fear for the safety of the teachers and pupils.
Those braces are mocking us. Yes, this young lady was called to the Bar of England and Wales at the tender age of 18. Gabrielle Turnquest did at 18 what the average lawyer achieves at 27-years-old. Turnquest is the youngest person in history to have passed the bar exam.
Mo Ibrahim wrote an article for Forbes that details “how (and why) Africa should solve its own problems”. Ibrahim is the founder and Chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation that he established in 2006.
Backyard Brains is a company that is attempting to bring neuroscience into the classroom with the help of RoboRoach. RoboRoach was developed to inspire young minds to find cures for neurological diseases.
New studies show that the billionaires of this world didn’t get to where they are by luck, or even hard work, alone. It turns out that people who get really, really rich are basically just smarter than you.
If the kids are all over the iPad, indulge them in some educational games, so they’re at least learning something while they’re hogging your gadget. Children’s Technology Review shared these top five iPad apps to download for the kids. Wreck It Ralph Storybook Deluxe For ages five and up. There are 35 screens with two […]
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande promised today that all poor students admitted into tertiary institutions will get funding.
Much like macaroni frames and stickmen drawn families produced as a child, creative types can sharpen existing skills with Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Illustrator CS6 or CorelDraw X6 online courses. Click through to get this deal.
With the latest matric results just announced, and the arguable standard that they represent, comes a list of 10 things that are arguably worth knowing about these results.
We have just found ourselves wondering how on earth Jacob Zuma sleeps at night when we heard about this: all Grade One to 11 pupils in Olifantshoek, in the Northern Cape, will repeat their 2012 grades next year.
The Witness reported today that a KwaZulu-Natal teacher has been chillaxing on sick leave for eight years while the Department of Education has been faithfully paying her salary every month. Crazy.
Declare national crisis in education – Jansen. R5bn lifeline for SAA. AB: We let our country down. Gold Fields tells miners to pack and go. Department to probe Nkandla documents leak. Greece to spend almost €100m on building F1 track.
Ask anyone living in South Africa what the biggest issues facing this country are, and if they have two brain cells still knocking together the word “education” will definitely be mentioned. Which is why reading a headline such as this should have you deeply worried.
The textbook saga in Limpopo has been dragging on for ages, and local politicians have seen this as a fantastic opportunity to make themselves look good. Well, the Democratic Alliance, at least. Some Limpopo schools are still without textbooks, in spite of government intervention and a court order from the North Gauteng High Court.
A group of Ukrainian students are deservedly receiving a large amount of attention for a very impressive student project that has seen them qualify as one of the six finalists at this year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup. They’ve invented a glove that can translate the movements made by sign language into speech.
Durban is soon to set itself apart from other South African cities as a leader on the tourism front. A US hospitality group is planning a fleet of six see-through tourist submarines, underwater restaurants and nightclubs, and a 17 000-seat amphitheatre for live music performances on the KwaZulu-Natal coast.
China is abuzz at the moment with pictures allegedly uploaded by a student at a high school in Hubei Province where learners are given amino acids on IV drips to help them study, while they study!. The photos were uploaded to one of China’s many Twitter-like micro-blogging sites, and we’ve got a full gallery, and the official explanation, after the jump!
Studies show SA students are only interested in brands, booze and food, but this Durban University of Technology student sets an awesome example for everyone who has to fight tremendous odds to make it somewhere through education. Read his awesome success story, after the jump!