Grade R to 3 pupils will be among the first to be exposed to Fourth Industrial Revolution-ready subjects in 2020. On Tuesday, long-serving Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that the ...

The training of teachers and subject advisors for the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE’s) coding and robotics curriculum will be conducted online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. So said basic ...

The Department of Education has announced that it will be implementing what President Cyril Ramaphosa promised during his 2019 State of the Nation Address, confirming that coding and robotics will be ...

A new study shows that grade R classes have almost zero effect on the future performance of pupils in South Africa’s poorest schools. “The impact of grade R in South Africa is small and there is ...

South Africa’s education system, and the departments involved, have long been criticised for their seeming preoccupation with matric results. Critics point to the failure in results — and wider ...

When your Grade R child comes home from school, they can’t stop talking about the friends they made, games they played and the new things they learned that day. Some experts say this preschool class ...

South Africa’s Department of Basic Education (DBE) will introduce coding and robotics into the school curriculum for Grades R to 3 and Grade 7 in 2023, following a pilot project that began in the ...

Grade R learners from Noordjieland Pre-Primary School bid farewell to their pre-primary education during the school‘s brief graduation ceremony held at the school last Friday. Each learner received a ...