With Grade R now fully integrated into formal schooling, the Basic Education Department demands minimum NQF Level 6 ...

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 ...

Select Committee on Education Chairperson Makhi Feni has expressed concerns about the Department of Basic Education's ...

The Department of Education has implemented the BELA Act, integrating Grade R into the schooling system and require Grade R teachers to upgrade their qualifications.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the Bela Act makes Grade R attendance compulsory, the National Treasury’s refusal to allocate additional funding leaves provinces struggling to deliver on the promise of universal early ...