Jon Foster-Pedley Transforming perception: Five essential steps for South Africa to revive global investor confidence 4 min 0 9 April 2025
Michael Le Cordeur We are picking the bitter fruit of South Africa’s neglect of Grade R 5 min 1 25 March 2025
Michael Le Cordeur All dressed up with nowhere to go – record matric pass rate, but limited space at universities 5 min 0 25 February 2025
Jonathan Molver A national crisis — illiterate 10-year-olds with five years of school behind them 5 min 6 26 February 2024
Mmusi Maimane The numbers don’t lie — the inherent mathematical flaws in SA’s education system 4 min 7 17 January 2024
Mark Tomlinson Call it what it is — the SA education system is in complete ruins 5 min 23 22 November 2023
Michael Le Cordeur International literacy survey results mostly a true reflection of SA government’s bad report card 6 min 2 31 July 2023
Mark Tomlinson ANC government has consigned countless SA children to a lifetime of catch-up and struggle 4 min 11 19 June 2023
Judith February The bitter dividend of our freedom has spawned despair and ugliness in equal measure 6 min 8 8 June 2023
David Maynier The Western Cape’s R1.2bn plan to get learning and teaching #BackOnTrack 3 min 0 23 May 2023
Jonathan Molver Don’t blame Covid-19 for the reading catastrophe revealed by Pirls — blame our education system 5 min 0 23 May 2023
Mike Russell Will we draw wisdom from PIRLS, or continue on our disastrous education path? 3 min 0 18 May 2023
Baxolile Nodada Pirls findings point to a lame-duck minister of education and a generational catastrophe 4 min 0 17 May 2023
Baxolile Nodada The quality of education that our learners get is quite possibly the biggest obstacle to their success 4 min 7 23 January 2023
Jonathan Molver Half our teachers will retire by 2030 — what about those who’ll remain? 4 min 1 21 September 2022
Michael Le Cordeur We are facing a major literacy crisis and need a fundamental mind shift in our reading culture at schools 3 min 6 15 September 2021
Sipumelele Lucwaba Revised finding on SA’s literacy level a ray of hope – but social investment is still needed 5 min 0 9 November 2020
Elizabeth Henning School closures likely to have a serious impact on early literacy learning 4 min 0 28 July 2020
