The Sunday Times, in partnership with PRAESA (The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa), launched the new Sunday Times Nal’ibali Storybook yesterday.

In 2010, Symphonia for South Africa, under the leadership of Dr Louise van Rhyn, spearheaded a world-first change initiative in education called Partnerships for Possibility. The programme facilitates partnerships between business leaders and school principals.

The annual UK Financial Times Executive Education rankings, a global benchmark for providers of executive education has once again ranked the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) as the top South African and African business school for 2013.

On the 26th April, various local and international Rotary Club representatives officially handed over a specialised solar oven to the Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) Eden campus in Karatara. 

  

Tuesday 16 April 2013 was not a normal day at Gqebenya Junior Secondary School in the Lady Frere district, Eastern Cape.  The Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga and the CEO of Tiger Brands Peter Matlare attended this school to celebrate the serving of it's 10 millionth breakfast meal.

To help improve the reading, writing, comprehension and verbal skills among primary school learners in Grades 4 to 6 in the Western Cape, Growthpoint Properties partnered with the Western Cape Education Department to create Growsmart. Launched in 2010, the high impact literacy programme is gaining ground as it positively influences the lives of the pupils, teachers, schools and the communities of the Western Cape.

 

A partnership initiative to support the important role of early childhood education in rural South Africa was realised recently when two Grade R classrooms, constructed from decommissioned shipping containers, were handed to the Agter-Witzenberg farm community outside Ceres in South Africa's Western Cape region.

 

Dell South Africa aims to develop literate and connected communities and bridging the gap the between “haves” and “haves-not”. Providing quality education is one way in which they strive to bridge this gap.

52 Dutch runners representing the Run4Schools Foundation ran the 2013 Two Oceans Marathon in support of the organisation's after-care sports programmes in Mitchells Plain. Together they have raised 68.000 euro (±R800.000).

The Birches Pre- Primary School from Pinetown, outside Durban, has been awarded the $1000 ‘South Africa Country Prize’ for the best school based business in South Africa as part of the School Enterprise Challenge 2012.

Sunward Park High School in Boksburg has become the first public school to transform learning into a fully digital platform.

The Shoprite Group has repaired the Coega Primary School after it was sighted in media reports in August 2012 as an example of how schools in the Eastern Cape have deteriorated without support staff.

High school students now have a credible alternative to an academic matric exemption.

15 staff members from Aurecon’s East London office recently crossed the Great Kei River and drove into rural Transkei to the small village of Mjo to erect a new classroom for the local pre-primary children, as the old one was falling apart. 

The annual schools and universities JSE Liberty Investment Challenge, which this year celebrates 40 years of bringing investment education to South Africa’s youth, is starting today.

Dad Fund project coordinator, Simamkele Dlakavu, along with a team of university students and graduates are determined to educate more high school learners in rural areas about higher learning institutions and financial study aid options.

Based on the roaring success of the inaugural conference held in Johannesburg in March last year, The Inspired Teachers Conference kicks off this year with an inspiring line up of enthusiastic teachers at Mitchells House School, Polokwane on Friday 22 March.

The Innovative Teachers Institute (ITI), sponsored by the Khulula foundation, is a movement for passionate, skilled, connected and revolutionary educators committed to the quest of creating change through adopting innovative strategies that promote development and improve student performance.

Everyone knows Roger Federer the tennis legend. Not many know about the marvellous work being done in South Africa through the Roger Federer Foundation's Growing to READ Early Childhood Development programme in Limpopo as implemented by READ Educational Trust.

IQ Business and KommunityDesk have joined forces in an effort to help uplift education in disadvantaged schools.

The Tertiary School in Business Administration (TSiBA) 2013 Scholarship Ceremony took place in February to formally welcome and award new TSiBA students with their Higher Certificate in Business Administration (HCBA) scholarships. 

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and LEAD SA have announced details of a major initiative to raise rape awareness and educate the 10,2-million learners in South African schools.