Call For Tutors

Submitted by PCR Admin on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 19:49

With no end in sight to the Public Service Sector strike, Equal Education is putting together an emergency tutoring programme to assist EE members who are in matric.

If you are able to teach any lessons on the following areas please contact us at Joey@equaleducation.org.za

  • Maths
  • Physics
  • English
  • Life Sciences (Biology)
  • Chemistry
  • Geography
  • Xhosa

(lessons need to be relevant to the matric syllabus, ie choose a topic and come run it)

Equal Education's delivered Memorandum to the Western Cape Department of Education

Submitted by PCR Admin on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 19:25

125 learners picketed outside the Western Cape Education department yesterday 25 August 2010. The learners demanded that their teachers be returned to school and called for the government to do more to negotiate a settlement with the public service unions. Equal Education delivered a memorandum to the Western Cape Department of Education. The memorandum was received by Paul Boughey who promised that the department was taking measures to offset the negative effect of the public sector strike on education.

Matric chaos mounting

Submitted by PCR Admin on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 02:15

DAVID MACFARLANE AND RYAN HOFFMANN | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Aug 25 2010 10:45

There is "no chance" the final matric exams will be postponed, the national department of basic education said on Wednesday -- despite the fact that three provinces announced that prelim exams will be postponed.

The three provinces have cited strike-related disruptions to schooling as reasons for the postponement of the exams, which were due to start next week.

But the national department is taking a different line. "The department has made it very clear since the strike started that the Grade 12 finals will not be moved under any circumstances," Granville Whittle, spokesperson for the department, told M&G Education.

Gauteng, Free State and Eastern Cape announced on Wednesday that preliminary matric exams would be postponed due to the ongoing teacher strike.

The Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Northern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo education departments are expected to make decisions on the matter by the end of the week.

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