There’s a teacher somewhere near you who hasn’t sat down before 9pm in three weeks. Not because they’re disorganised. Not because they don’t care. Because the job has expanded to fill every hour available – and then some. Admin. Planning. Marking. Chasing resources that either don’t exist or cost money the school simply doesn’t have. […]
Education
The Long Road Back to the Classroom — Why Education Never Left Me
There are passions you choose, and then there are passions that choose you. Education chose me a long time ago — somewhere between a school desk in 1977 and a college lecture hall in 1980 — and it has never quite let go. I finished school in 1977. Like most young men of my generation […]
South Africa’s School Term 1 is over. What now?
The tests are written. The results are coming. And June exams are exactly 10 weeks away. Here’s what the window between now and then actually looks like — and why it matters more than most parents realise. The gap nobody talks about Term 1 ends with a test week, not full examinations. That distinction matters. […]