We look at when it is necessary to have such a licence and when not, and what the approximate costs would be.
Continue Reading...2015-04-13 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 09 – THE LATEST ON TEXTBOOKS, STATIONERY AND OTHER LEARNING MATERIALS
Report on a meeting with the national Department of Basic Education, Treasury, Publishers, Stationery manufacturers and others on the proposed centralized procurement of textbooks, stationery and other learning materials, the development of libraries and the national textbook catatlogue00
Continue Reading...2015-02-27 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 06 – APPRAISING THE SGB
A very comprehensive appraisal tool for the evaluation of a school governing body.
Continue Reading...2015-06-19 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 19 – THE PLACEMENT OF STAFF ON PROBATION
Dos and don’ts around probation periods when appointing or promoting staff.
Continue Reading...2015-02-13 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 04 – WHAT CAN BE EXPECTED OF STAFF MEMBERS ELECTED TO SERVE ON THE GOVERNING BODY AND EXPECTATIONS PLACED ON PROSPECTIVE GOVERNORS
An explanation of the roles and responsibilities of staff members – educators or otherwise – who are elected to serve on their school’s governing body, how they should act and what other governors and their peers in the staff room can reasonably expect of them.
Continue Reading...2015-06-05 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 17 – FINLAND: LAND OF TOP PERFORMING SCHOOLS
Some interesting aspects of how the Finns have gone to work in putting in place what is arguably the world’s most effective public school system.
Continue Reading...2015-07-24 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 20 – IS SOMEONE SABOTAGING YOUR GOVERNING BODY?
Is it possible to have someone removed from the governing body if they are generally undermining the body or white-anting the school?
Continue Reading...UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NUMBER 33 – TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW ADDENDUM ON TIME ALLOCATION
Addendum to Undercurrents Vol 5 Number 33 on time allocation for additional African languages
Continue Reading...2015-11-06 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NUMBER 33 – TO KNOW OR NOT TO KNOW
Four matters on which there is still no clarity – the writing of the ANA, the jobs-for-sale scandal, the modular matric, and the Incremental Introduction of an Indigenous African Language in 2016
Continue Reading...2015-02-20 – UNDERCURRENTS 2015 – VOL 5 NO 05 – THE NITTY-GRITTY OF GOVERNING BODY ELECTIONS
Hints and suggestions, as well as an explanation of what the regulations expect of those involved in the organization of SGB elections in a school.
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