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  • Newspaper

    Probe into alleged selling of teacher posts underway

    South Africa

    Press

    Sapa - Mail and Guardian

    A task team has begun investigating the alleged selling of teacher posts, the basic education department said on Sunday. The team has started to do its work and several interviews have been held with union's department spokesperson.

  • Tools to fight corruption at your school

    The Corruption Watch schools campaign started at the beginning of the 2013 academic year. Monitoring of schools was a major focus for us in 2013 - through 2012, from our launch in January up to the beginning of the schools campaign we had received...

    Corruption Watch (South Africa)

    Johannesburg, Corruption Watch, 2013

  • Newspaper

    Anti-Corruption Forum inculcates whistle blowing in schools

    South Africa

    Press

    Themba Gadebe - BuaNews Tshwane

    The National Anti-Corruption Forum (NACF), in a bid to combat corruption, has raised the importance of whistle blowing as part of the school curricula to create awareness amongst learners and teachers.

  • Newspaper

    Hearings start for 61 Mpumalanga teachers

    South Africa

    Press

    Sue Blaine - Business Day

    The Mpumalanga education department has begun disciplinary hearings for 61 teachers accused of being involved in last year's matric exam cheating. Investigations revealed that candidates were assisted, possibly by teachers, in one or more subjects. Irregular practices took place at 10 of the province's Mpumalanga's 587 examination centres.

  • Newspaper

    Teacher fired for exposing cheats

    South Africa

    Press

    Sue Blaine - Business Day

    The firing of a teacher who helped expose the cheating in last year's matric exams shows that whistle-blowers' rights are badly protected. This despite the promise from the Education Minister to protect those who exposed the cheating. Seven months after the fraud in the Mpumalanga matric exams, the only person who has been penalised is one of the whistle-blowers.

  • Newspaper

    Matric fraud delays bursaries

    South Africa

    Press

    Bismark and Justin Lubisi and Arenstein - BuaNews

    An exam scandal has forced the provincial agriculture department to withhold bursaries. The irregularities have affected 38 schools and at least 2,000 exam papers.

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