Parents have been advised not to underestimate the importance of quality education for their children during their formative years.
SA's poor education standards were going to hinder the country's efforts to become one of the leading emerging markets, a top economist has warned.
In a recent interview with AllAfrica's Boakai Fofana, Liberia's education minister, Joseph Kortu, discussed the successes and challenges of rebuilding the country's educational system after a devastating civil war.
From the sky, the huts dotted along unpaved roads leading to the port city of Harper resemble those in rural areas in Liberia. But while life in Harper resembles village life in many ways, several features set the city apart.
ACCESS to education may have increased dramatically since 1994 but quality is still below what the country needs, according to the latest South African Institute of Race Relations SA Survey.
THE 233000-strong South African Democratic Teachers' Union (Sadtu) would resist any attempt to scrap SA's outcomes-based education (OBE) system, the union said on Friday.
THE Shuttleworth Foundation and Connexions from Rice University, in the US, yesterday announced plans to jointly develop what they say will be one of the world's largest, most comprehensive sets of free online teaching materials for primary and secondary schoolchildren.
The World Bank last week urged African governments to grow smart investments in tertiary education if their graduates are to succeed in today's competitive global environment.
THE number of good engineering and built environment academics returning to the private sector was so high that the chairman of the committee of deans of engineering and built environment faculties, Prof Francis Petersen, wants to speak to Business Leadership SA's technical CEOs about how to curb the problem.
When in 2003 Kenya followed its neighbours Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Malawi in introducing free and compulsory primary education for all, the response from the public as well as international donors was overwhelming.
