Newspaper Columns

It’s clear that government officials don’t care about teachers’ mental health or pupils’ emotional health

Poorer schools are being forced to lay off huge swathes of teaching staff. This is a crisis the state has to address

Believe it or not, there’s productive fun to be had in lockdown. Here’s advice on how to cope – and excel

More pandemics are coming, so we need new ways to teach about viruses, bacteria and infectious diseases

Covid-19 hasn’t caused the schooling crisis, it has just exposed how huge the inequalities in SA education are

A climate boost, new work opportunities, an uptick in innovation, rethinking how we learn – there are many positives

Cyril’s shutdown is fine if you have middle-class options, not when staying at home means going hungry

Teaching via online platforms is set to replace the face-to-face model entirely, for one simple – economic – reason

Literary flourishes aside, the education budget offered some hard-to-digest lessons. Here, I offer six