Educators and learners pay tribute
Sobs and anger filled the Protea South Hall at the memorial service of the four boy learners killed during an alleged drag racing in Protea, Soweto earlier this week.
Hundreds of fellow learners from Jules High School and Altmont Technical High School , educators, community members and government officials all gathered at the Protea South Hall on Thursday, March 11 2010 to pay tribute and mourn with the families of Prince Mohube, Mlungisi Cwayi, Phomello Masemola and Andile Mthombeni.
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Heeding the call to strengthen education in Gauteng
About a thousand retired teachers and principals heeded MEC Barbara Creecy's call to strengthen the quality of education in Gauteng and converged at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, on 11 March 2010. In attendance were retired educators who previously taught Mathematics, Science, Technology, English 2 nd language, Geography and Biology in the province.
The aim of the meeting was to discuss how the retired educators could help improve education in the Gauteng province.
MEC Creecy pointed out that despite massive achievements in education after the apartheid era, the big problem is that learner performance is not improving. Among other reasons given for under performance of schools were institutional factors like l earner and educator discipline, school safety, poor hygiene, lack of infrastructure, poverty, social deprivation, curriculum management, inadequate coverage, poor quality of teaching and assessment and ineffective school-based systems for monitoring curriculum delivery.
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