It’s clear that government officials don’t care about teachers’ mental health or pupils’ emotional health
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Poorer schools are being forced to lay off huge swathes of teaching staff. This is a crisis the state has to address
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Eat, play, live: a Grade 12 guide to surviving the year of the pandemic
by adminby adminBelieve it or not, there’s productive fun to be had in lockdown. Here’s advice on how to cope – and excel
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More pandemics are coming, so we need new ways to teach about viruses, bacteria and infectious diseases
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Covid-19 hasn’t caused the schooling crisis, it has just exposed how huge the inequalities in SA education are
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The upsides to a pandemic: from jobs to teaching, it’s not all bad news
by adminby adminA climate boost, new work opportunities, an uptick in innovation, rethinking how we learn – there are many positives
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Closing schools just means poor kids bear the brunt of the virus
by adminby adminCyril’s shutdown is fine if you have middle-class options, not when staying at home means going hungry
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How viruses and violence will change the way we deliver education
by adminby adminTeaching via online platforms is set to replace the face-to-face model entirely, for one simple – economic – reason
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Literary flourishes aside, the education budget offered some hard-to-digest lessons. Here, I offer six