Department of basic education
Motshekga: Teachers & pupils must adhere to schools’ codes of conduct
Motshekga has weighed in after a video emerged of a teacher forcefully combing pupils’ hair prior to them entering a school.
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DBE expecting high number of candidates to register for matric rewrite
It said an extraordinary number of people stayed away from the exams last year due to fears of contracting the virus.
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SAHRC to hold urgent meeting with DBE over incomplete Tembisa school
Eyewitness News reported last week that five years after the construction of the school began, the project appears to be far from completion.
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Gauteng SAHRC plan urgent meeting to probe why Tembisa school not complete
This comes after Eyewitness News reported that almost five years after the construction of the school began, the project is far from completion with the provincial government giving different explanations.
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Ramaphosa: SA education pursuing national rollout of coding and robotics
Delivering the keynote address at the education lekgotla, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that a coding and robotics curriculum had been submitted to Umalusi for evaluation and quality assurance. Ramaphosa added that 200 schools would be piloting the draft curriculum from grade R to three and 1,000 schools would be piloting the Grade 7 curriculum.
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Ramaphosa: SA education system must be aligned with digital revolution
President Ramaphosa delivered the keynote address at the virtual basic education lekgotla on Thursday morning which takes place under the theme: 'Equipping learners with knowledge and skills for a changing world'.
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VIDEO: 'I was expecting a bloodbath' - Motshekga on matric results
The basic education minister released matric results for the year mired by COVID-19 turmoil.
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‘Remember your aspirations,’ IEB matrics encourage class of 2021 amid pandemic
The class of 2020 achieved a pass rate of 98.07%.
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Basic Educations Dept calls for suggestions to prevent future matric exam leaks
It’s calling for interventions after the Mathematics and Physical Science papers were leaked last year.
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Come back: Lesufi appeals to 3,000 pupils who haven't returned to school
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has expressed concern saying he had sent out officials to investigate why the pupils were not at school.
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Motshekga: 'Educated man won't rape' comment taken out of context
While addressing pupils at Prospectus High School in Pretoria during an oversight visit for the reopening of schools, Angie Motshekga told children that "an educated man won't rape".
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1,169 teachers, 19 pupils succumbed to COVID-19 since March 2020 - Dept
Department of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga called for a minute of silence to be observed to remember the deceased.
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FULL SPEECH: Angie Motshekga on SA schools' readiness for start of academic year
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Sunday briefed media on the state of readiness for public schools, which were expected to officially reopen on Monday following a two-week delay.
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More than 2,000 grade 1 and 8 Gauteng pupils still not placed at a school
The Education Department received over 200,000 applications through its online system.
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Teacher unions express mixed feelings about reopening of schools on Monday
The start of the 2021 academic calendar was pushed back last month by two weeks to deal with the rising COVID-19 cases.
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DBE encourages parents to report schools demanding registration fees
Spokesperson Elijah Mhlanga said this practice was unlawful and warned parents to be cautious and report schools demanding a fee to place pupils.
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How the Class of 2020 can access matric results quickly & easily
With the odds having been stacked against them because of the coronavirus and the lockdown, it has been quite a trying period for matrics and their parents/guardians across South Africa.
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Basic Education says it's committed to paying general & school assistants
The department said it was aware that some assistants had not yet been paid and that urgent steps had been taken to assist.
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Unions concerned about lack of PPEs as teachers prepare to go back to schools
According to unions, KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo teachers have been hardest hit by the pandemic.
