The traditional routes to success are shifting for South African school leavers. Discover how alternative education pathways are changing lives and opening doors to bright futures.

For more than two decades, University of Delaware Professor Emerita Norma Gaines-Hanks has taken predominantly white groups of students to the predominantly Black countries of South Africa and ...

Robyn Tyler is affiliated with the bua-lit language and literacy collective. Brian Ramadiro is deputy director of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural development at the University of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says while the country has made significant progress over the last three decades, there are still huge challenges in education. In January, Ramaphosa acknowledged deep-seated ...

Philanthropy has long played a significant role in South African education, aiming to improve access to quality education for all – supporting schools, bursaries, teacher development, early childhood ...

In South Africa, this shift is shaped by our particular context, where access to quality tertiary education remains limited, with demand outstripping supply. Meeting this demand – and ensuring future ...

The Covid-19 pandemic, disruptive technologies, and current developments in changing global geopolitics, specifically the US travel ban on 21 countries and counting, as well as the raging war in the ...

But beneath the numbers lies a story of persistent struggle—one marked by high dropout rates, alarming learning deficits, and deep inequalities that continue to shape the nation’s future. A system ...

South Africa’s school placement scramble is influencing the choices families make about how their children learn. For many, the uncertainty runs deep into the first term – particularly in the early ...