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Resilence amid the doom & gloom
The almost meaningless display of verbal pyrotechnics that annually accompanies South Africa’s secondary school matriculation results is thankfully behind us. But the reality of a potential 700 000-plus school leaving job seekers is most definitely not. Along with double that number who dropped out before Grade 12, they highlight the most volatile element in the […]
Free education: only political will is missing
October 7, 2016
As campus chaos continues in South Africa, a simple fact should be borne in mind: the country has sufficient funds to provide free, quality education for all. However, the political will to source and to allocate such funds is currently missing.
Glimmers of light in the gathering gloom
June 12, 2016
Educate, organise — agitate (for true transformation). South Africa's Bill of Rights provides a banner to rally those who are starting to demand the right to control their own lives.
Opening the debate on alternative economics
January 28, 2016
“The doors of learning and culture shall be opened.” So states the eighth clause of the ANC’s Freedom Charter. It has again come to the forefront as university students embark on another series of protests about the cost of tertiary education.
Where political expediency trumps education
December 13, 2015
How better for a government facing severe criticism for it performance on the education front than to burnish its image by providing an illusion of improved school performance?
SA education: testing, love & ANA
September 27, 2015
To test or not to test? That is not the question. But it is the way the current row about basic education has largely been presented in South Africa. And it is a disaster in the making.
True building blocks for the future
June 16, 2014
Review: Book 'n Bricks by Sindiwe Magona. An inspirational and beautifully illustrated tale of a school that provides a signpost to a potentially more stable, egalitarian and healthy future.
An ‘oasis of excellence’ in the Karoo
May 25, 2014
In the midst of the poor and semi-arid Karoo region is an holistic developmental project that has been hailed as "an oasis of excellence"; an example that could be followed.
Terry Bell Writes 
January 16, 2017
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