An interpretation of what the ‘credit amnesty’ legislation means in SA schools
Continue Reading...2014-07-04 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 17 – RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MINISTERIAL TASK TEAM INTO THE MATRIC EXAM
GBF response to the report of the Ministerial Task Team called into being by the Minister of Education with a view to making recommendations concerning the matric exam
Continue Reading...2014-04-22 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 11 – INTRODUCING A RETIREMENT AGE
How to go about introducing into employment contracts a clause on a compulsory retirement age for employees, where the school has not previously formally done so
Continue Reading...2014-08-15 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NUMBER 21 – SCHOOLS, THE GBF AND THE DEPARTMENT
Report on the proceedings of the September 2014 meeting of the National Consultative Forum – includes Municipal levies; The Incremental Introduction of Additional African Languages; Grade R roll–out in 2015; Funding of Special Education; Technical Education; Policy on Progression with reference to repetition and age; Replacement of Textbooks; Signing of the Microsoft user licence/agreement; Proposed new Policy on the Transport of Learners ; Integrated School Health Programme (De-worming); World Teachers’ Day preparations; and some odd snippets around the advertising of posts in the provinces and the lack of response to correspondence by provincial officials.
Continue Reading...2014-05-05 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 12 – STAFF ACCOMMODATION
A look at staff accommodation as a perk, and the implications thereof, including taxation on the perk.
Continue Reading...2014-08-08 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 18 – HUMAN RIGHTS AND DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS
Discussions on the report of the Human Rights Commission into the management of a disciplinary process by a school, brought before the Commission for a ruling on whether the approaches used by the school passed constitutional muster
Continue Reading...2014-06-04 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 15 – FOREIGN LEARNERS AND FEE PAYMENTS
Are the parents of foreign learners entitled to apply for fee exemption in our fee-paying schools?
Continue Reading...2014-06-02 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 14 – NOW THE CARNIVAL IS OVER
Information from deliberations with the national department of education:
Continue Reading...2014-04-08 – UNDERCURRENTS 2014 – VOL 4 NO 10 – NEW SERVICE FOR MEMBER SCHOOLS
Details of a new service – advertising of vacant promotion posts in members schools – and how to go about using it.
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