Totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century enforced total control over education. Parents had zero rights over the most basic aspects of their children’s schooling. Unless Bill HR5 is approved by the US Senate, education in America is heading...
Safety in schools is directly related to discipline mechanisms. Therefore, the plan to deploy so-called community safety volunteers in schools and to establish safe school committees in an attempt to combat violence in schools is ludicrous...
Nicola Jones’ scathing review of the demands and conduct of those who call themselves students (The Witness, February 8) must resonate positively with all bonafide students and graduates. Tertiary education is not an unqualified right. The halls...
The proposal that History be made a compulsory matric subject has invited speculation as to what the subject content should include and how it should be taught. Since History embraces all branches of knowledge and experience, its inclusion in a...
The report in the Daily News of April 11 on the dysfunctional state of Mariann Ridge Secondary school in many ways reflects the trend in education after 24 years of ANC rule. Not only is the infrastructure of the school broken in terms of...
The remarks by Nokwanda Khuzwayo concerning pupils’ culture at schools (Mercury, November 23) provide insight into the decline of discipline in schools. Khuzwayo argues that teachers have no right to “disrespect” what a...
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