Pretoria, South Africa -- A teacher in South Africa has been suspended and allegations of racism are being investigated in a small town in the country's North West province after a photograph ...

Teaching is an extremely undervalued skill in Africa, where even the uneducated feel like they know better. From my personal experience as a teacher, and as a family man, teaching is an ungrateful ...

Dendron Secondary School in an impoverished rural area took it one step further. While other children were playing during South Africa's hard lockdown, final-year students at Dendron moved in with ...

A mom was left heartbroken after seeing a photo of her 5-year-old daughter doing something unexpected at school.The advent of ...

Secondary school teacher Nikiwe Ndlovu was looking to go back to school last month after lockdown in iLembe District, a rural area in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. She was ...

Citizen science tests by children and teachers in seven provinces suggest that roughly 40% of the school water samples they ...

For Mirembe's mother, a shoe vendor who looks after four children, it was a heartbreaking moment in the daily struggle to pay often unpredictable and unregulated school fees. Constant threats ...

Parents in 10 francophone countries who responded to household surveys cited the lack of learning in school--the absence of teaching despite children attending classes--for their children dropping ...

We saw this recently at a school outside Kampala, where a teacher told us that in the primary 1 class, at least 30 of the 120 students were under the entry age of 6, and that some were only 4.

Africa Melane interviews Basil Manuel of the National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa). Listen below. In 2023, school screenings indicated that 3.3% of staff members ...