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"South Africa is significantly underperforming in education, particularly mathematics teaching and learning. Fundamental reforms are needed in the public sector. Business leaders need to incorporate an understanding of private education and other market experiments and schooling innovations in their overall perspective and priorities for intervention and reform.   Read more in a new CDE Insight, MATHEMATICS OUTCOMES IN SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOLS: What are the facts? What should be done? "

http://t.co/UQ8ddhCvjF Is South Africa ready for digital education? #ict4red

http://t.co/UQ8ddhCvjF Is South Africa ready for digital education? #ict4red

From 2009 every Grade 9 pupil will be writing a national certificate whether they are leaving school or not. This was one of five major policy changes announced by Minister of Education Naledi Pandor on Monday. Other changes include proposals to: Lower teacher pupil ratios; Rearrange districts into smaller more manageable areas; Get Internet into every school in the country by 2013; and, Expand Further Education and Training Colleges

"Some Members were uncomfortable that each new Minister seemed to introduce new systems"

South African schoolchildren will be taught a Bill of Responsibilities along with the Bill of Rights, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said in Pretoria on Monday.

Education providers in South Africa is waking up to mobile learning solutions

Spady,The afther of OBE< who toured the country in 1997 addressing thousands of teachers about outcomes based education, said South Africa had "completely missed the boat" in understanding the concept.

In February, I announced the Western Cape Education Department's Infrastructure plan which aims to address the backlogs in school infrastructure in the Province. The R1.9 billion infrastructure plan, amongst other things, includes the building of 25 new schools over the current MTEF, the replacement of 20 schools that were built with inappropriate materials, the building of additional relief classrooms and the installation of mobile classrooms at schools where there is severe overcrowding.

How can distance learning become more student-centred? Dr Mpine Elizabeth Makoe, University of South Africa (UNISA), has been preoccupied with this question for several years. In a long-term study she conducted, she found that isolated students have a need for informal support that is often neglected in distance education. This has led her to investigate on how MXit, a popular South African instant messaging system, can help to fill the gap and drive collaborative eLearning in an attractive, age-appropriate manner.

Thought about answering but then I would have had to stop laughing. But quite worrying as well if this is were we are at. Read through all the comments.

Becta has published major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, by children between the ages of 11-16, both in and out of the school environment.

I dont agree with the simplistic way in which this topic is dealt with. Most of the reasons for taking maths, I would have put under maths lit.....??????? Can we discuss this please?