LEARNING CURVE BALL Covid drives rapid rise of online schooling in South Africa 3 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
EDUCATION OP-ED The 30% matric pass mark: To increase or to scrap, and why all the excitable commentary? 9 min 3 By Nicky Roberts
2022 ACADEMIC YEAR Back to school: A return to rotational learning for most, yet still no school placement for some 3 min 1 By Victoria O’Regan
CLASS OF 2021 ‘The long wait is excruciating’: Anxious times over delayed matric results 3 min 0 By Michelle Banda
LEARNING OP-ED South Africa’s basic education needs a major revision in 2022 4 min 0 By Maryke Bailey
COVID-19 Experts ring the warning bells over a mental health crisis among South African’s children during the pandemic 4 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
EDUCATION OP-ED High-quality data can help us understand the complex lives of South Africa’s children and why they drop out 6 min 0 By Rahima Essop, Angela Biden and Merle Mansfield
BABES IN ALMS By age 18, more than 30% of South African teen girls are reported to have given birth at least once 5 min 8 By An Wentzel
TEEN PREGNANCY Sexual violence driving high pregnancy rate among 10- to 19-year-olds in South Africa 4 min 2 By An Wentzel
Basic Education Learning losses remain a concern but children and teachers will get October break 4 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
DM168 REFLECTION Basic Education Department needs a few lessons in 21st-century learning 4 min 0 By Heather Robertson
BLACKBOARD JUNGLE Parliament told that 50 educators have been fired since 2019 for sexual misconduct at schools 2 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
CLASSROOM UPHEAVAL SA schools’ October holiday break may be shelved to make up for lost teaching days 2 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
Back to school — almost Move to reduce physical distancing in schools to less than 1m, but unions are against it 5 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
THE AFTERMATH Unrest took heavy toll on KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng schools battered by months of vandalism and burglaries 3 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
OP-ED Basic education: Schools return to ‘normal’ classes — and gross inequality 5 min 0 By Trevor Shaku
LEARNING ON EMPTY A year later and pupils are still going hungry, despite court order to reinstate National School Nutrition Programme 2 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
Covid-19: Class disruption Learning curb: How level 4 lockdown affects schools in South Africa 4 min 0 By Julia Evans
EDUCATION Physical distancing: Most Western Cape schools teaching early grades aren’t ready to reopen full-time 2 min 0 By Suné Payne
