BASIC Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube said Grade R practitioners will be formally integrated into the basic education system as educators once the provisions of Grade R in the Basic Education Laws ...

The Department of Education has implemented the BELA Act, integrating Grade R into the schooling system and require Grade R ...

Early Childhood Development (ECD) and grade R teachers staged a march to the Department of Basic Education offices on Struben Street on July 24. The reason for the march was that the group is not ...

The integration of Grade R into the formal schooling system must be approached with caution, as the demands for specific ...

Almost 900 Eastern Cape grade R teachers will soon have permanent government jobs, pending adoption of the new budget later in November. The teachers, currently on annual contracts without benefits, ...

More than 7,000 Grade R teachers across South Africa are unqualified. Those are the worrying figures which emerged from the Department of Basic Education during a parliamentary committee meeting on ...

According to Stats SA's 2024 midyear population estimates, there are 1.1 million five-year-olds in the country. Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has revealed that South Africa needs ...

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 ...