An American family's insights on the intense SA school experience spark online debates about education standards, access, and ...

In November 2023, CDE brought the internationally renowned Sir Michael Barber, a leading expert on governance, reform and ...

Millions of young South Africans have matriculated from the school system, but many lack the necessary skills to enter the ...

Last Friday, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law making, among other provisions, one year of pre-primary education compulsory, further strengthening the right to education for South ...

The fifteenth edition of the South Africa Economic Update, Learning: Overdue Reforms and Emerging Priorities in Basic Education, discusses South Africa’s economic prospects and focuses on basic ...

The democratic breakthrough of 1994 stands as one of the most significant political achievements of the modern era. Against ...

South Africa has a new law governing education. The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act changes several aspects of how schools are managed. It was introduced to address inequalities in the ...

I am not going to go into the many ways that our education system is failing poor children. Suffice to say that each one of ...

Prof Mashupye Herbert Maserumule, executive dean in the faculty of humanities at the Tshwane University of Technology, made a ...

Higher education minister warned that the education system was not effectively moving young people 'from learning into ...

When South African president Cyril Ramaphosa named Nobuhle Nkabane as the minister of higher education on 3 July 2024, many people I know in the sector had to Google her name. Dr Nkabane had been ...