SCAM­MERS have sprung up on so­cial me­dia to lure matrics who may have failed their ex­ams with “au­then­tic” ma­tric cer­tifi­cates, for a fee. The ad­verts on Face­book, posted from var­i­ous...

Violence troubling the University of Zululand has forced its vice-chancellor Xoliswa Mtose to walk with bodyguards on campus, fearing that she could be harmed.

PUB­LIC tech­ni­cal and vo­ca­tional ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing (TVET) will soon lose part of its state fund­ing, amount­ing to mil­lions of rand, due to poor pass rates. This merit-based fund­ing...

Am­putees from ru­ral parts of the Eastern Cape will no longer have to travel long dis­tances to have their pros­the­sis py­lon changed in hos­pi­tal. Two fi­nal year med­i­cal or­thotics and...

An ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cial who was in charge of buy­ing food for chil­dren has been ar­rested in con­nec­tion with de­fraud­ing the school nu­tri­tion pro­gramme of R2.9m. For­mer ed­u­ca­tion...

THE coun­try’s low lev­els of lit­er­acy mo­ti­vated Olieven­hout­bosch teacher to make it her mis­sion to im­prove the cul­ture of read­ing. Molo­gadi Mathosa had been work­ing with pri­mary school...

​The M&G went to the World Innovation Summit for Education to find out how other countries are dealing with education problems similar to SA’s

More students are enrolling in doctoral studies, but gatekeepers are questioning their worthiness