School funding delays drive principals into personal credit card debt
POLOKWANE: School principals are getting into personal debt to keep schools functioning while provincial education departments delay releasing funds for basic operating costs.
Power to the parents – Don’t waste your School Governing Body vote
JOHANNESBURG: With draft BELA Act regulations now open for public comment and ahead of School Governing Body elections in March next year, parents have been urged to prepare in advance and take their voting power seriously.
Bridging Home and School: Why parents matter
ORANGE FARM: Experts have long held that a key to reading success is not exclusive to the classroom, but in the everyday learning that happens at home. “Learning does not begin when children walk through the school doors, nor does it end when they exit for the day. It takes place all the time, everywhere.”
How funding apartheid fail young library users
MAKHANDA: When Grade 11 learner Sipho Mthembu arrives on Monday afternoons at Duna Library, his local facility in Joza, Makhanda, he’s not looking for books to borrow. He needs something more basic: a quiet place to study with working electricity. Yet the library closes at 5 pm, soon after school ends.