The ability to read for meaning and pleasure is the most important skill that children can learn in primary school. Western Education MEC Debbie Schäfer knows this as well as any educator, as she kicked off her national book week by visiting Laerskool Laurus in Oudtshoorn.
Belinda Petersen has become the first black principal of Rustenburg Girls' Junior School in Rondebosch, Cape Town. This comes as the school is making inroads towards creating a more transformative environment for its learners.
Western Cape schools saw a fewer number of learners attending as they reopened schools on Monday. It's not clear if the taxi violence has completely stopped in the province but it has been impacting the number of learners present at schools.
The Western Cape Education Department has ruled that not all schools across will resume full-time attendance due to social distancing rules. The Department announced that primary school learners will return to schools full-time from 26 July.
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) has revealed that it will avail more almost three hundred of it's final year nursing students to assist with administering Covid-19 vaccine in throughout the province. The country is currently in phase 2 of the national vaccine rollout.
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There are now discussions happening about making the vaccination students compulsory. So far, South Africa has administered millions of vaccines to South Africans, a large number being that of the youth.
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The school dropout rate is expected to surge in South Africa over the next few years if urgent interventions are not put in place. Education experts have also pointed that literacy rates are already declining.
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