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How soon do we forget what elders used to know; that children should be raised, not left like weeds to grow. ~ Art Buck

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Lerato, a Grade 7 learner from Laerskool Voortrekker Eeufees was the lucky winner of our Apple iPod competition. Pictured here is Lerato with her class teacher handing over the rockn’ 8 gig iPod. We love making kids happy Find out more about the GetAhead School Project – where everyone is a winner! (Cliche, we know, [...]

What really constitutes an advantaged and a disadvantaged school though? Is an advantaged school one where you walk into every classroom and see an interactive whiteboard and a laptop in front of every learner? Is an advantaged school one that is built out of bricks and has airconditioning, electricity and running water? When will the South African Department of Education realise that good education starts with the teacher?

Great news at the start of the third school term! GetSmarter, a high-touch online education company, and Teacher’s Monthly are giving away a place in the upcoming Cambridge University Press Grade 12 Mathematics course worth R5,400. You can nominate ANY Grade 12 learner who you think deserves to go on this course for FREE.

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of a mine, that the child of a farmworker can become the president of a great nation.

High School Maths is important because it is the most widely used subject in the world. Doing maths helps the mind to reason and organise complicated situations or problems into clear, simple, and logical steps. High paying jobs often demand someone who can take complicated situations and simplify them to the level that everyone can understand. By doing well at maths, you’re giving yourself a competitive edge that you’ll need to land a really cool job.

I know from personal experience and from hearing stories from teachers that marking exams and tests is almost always a nightmare. Piles of papers stacked on your desk (at home!) while you run through red ink to try and get your marks out before 12:00 the next day. XT, our unique, South African assessment and [...]

I found this quote by Mark Slee, a software engineer who works for Facebook, and it really sums up how we have begun to view software development here at EvaluNet over the past few years: We’ve been working hard to revamp XT, our assessment and testing tool, to bring it more in line with the [...]