WCED under fire for protecting official involved in bribery
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Cape Town - Concerns have been raised over the underbelly of the provinceâs education system following continuous cases of bribery and corruption by senior officials serving under the Western Cape Education Department (WCED).
While the department had last month pointed out the number of officials, teachers and principals disciplined for fraud and theft, the public specifically raised questions over officials who still serve under the WCED even though they had been fingered in corruption.
The department has been criticised for protecting a senior official who allegedly bribed a teacher with a position if he co-operated with the department by falsely testifying in a disciplinary hearing against Heathfield High school principal Wesley Neumann.
WCED under fire for protecting teacher involved in bribery
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Special ministerial NSC awards for brave pupils who persevered
By Okuhle Hlati
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Cape Town â The school career of a Strandfontein pupil, Erin OâConnor, changed dramatically four years ago after she was diagnosed with a rare kidney cancer.
By the time Erin OâConnor was in matric at South Peninsula High School last year, she was left with one kidney and had gone through chemotherapy, which she described as the worst experience.
Despite being more at-risk during the Covid-19 pandemic than her fellow classmates, OâConnor made no excuses and attended every class and exam.
She was honoured with a Special Ministerial Award yesterday at the National Senior Certificate awards, held at Premier Alan Windeâs Leeuwenhof residence.
For land reform to be a success, lets teach Agricultural Sciences in schools
By Opinion
by Brian Isaacs
I believe that as a teacher one has to dream. Dream small and the bigger dreams with follow. It is like evolution. I am a biologist and took many lessons from Charles Darwin the evolutionist.
An ex-South Peninsula High School student and brilliant scholar Cecil Leonard who became an anatomy scientist professor using evolution as his basis at the University of the Western Cape during the apartheid years at the university reserved for “anderkleuriges “taught me many lessons about life.
Also, an ex-student of SP Professor Merlin Mehl who was a brilliant Physics professor at UWC himself a well- known person in religious circles must have had wonderful debates with Prof Leonard. Professor Jan Skinner a zoologist at UWC, when he was dissecting a rabbit, said: “Can you see there is no soul in this rabbit!” Challenging our religious beliefs. These are individuals when I was a
Teachers have no excuse not to give their best
By Opinion
by Brian Isaacs
There is no doubt in my mind government must ensure adequate money is spent on education from early childhood development (ECD), primary, secondary and tertiary education.
I have proposed in my earlier columns there is no place for private education in South Africa. Private education encourages elitism and does not expose all South Africans to the problems in education in South Africa.
Schools are overcrowded and lack the necessary infrastructure and number of teachers, unlike private and former Model C schools.
I believe teachers working in the majority of schools of the poor must see that it is their political duty to see they have the qualifications to teach. They must go beyond their call of duty to see they give the children of this country a quality education.
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