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If you're a teacher in the Peninsula, or you have kids in matric, why not send them to a Winter School to a) revise their work and b) get their brains in gear again for the 3rd term.

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The Sunday Times published their list of the Top 100 schools in SA on 18 Oct. I thought their criteria for the list were up the pole. So I wrote to them and told them so. You can read my edited letter here.

This is the text of a lecture I gave this evening to a group of our school's top academics.

This evening we’re going to be talking about a rather unusual topic – something that is rather close to my heart. Actually, it’s rather close to YOUR heart, as well as mine. We’re going to be talking about parasites.

Now why on earth would I choose a topic like this to discuss? When I was at university, I had three weeks of lectures on parasites and our lecturer started off by telling us how ubiquitous… Continue

Last week schools received a circular informing them that the government plans to change the pass requirements for Grade 1- 9 learners, effective this year. For Grade 7-9 it means: 50% or more for the home language (or language of instruction), 40% or more for maths, 50% or more for any two other subjects and 40% or more for any two other subjects.

While this doesn't sound unreasonable in and of itself, and while I applaud the efforts of the Education department to raise standards, there are se… Continue

The Sheffield University has a team who have produced a computer programme that alters the map of the world (or the relative size of the countries and continents) based on data available on a particular question. Their results make for very interesting reading. How does SA fare, and where are going if we don't change things fairly soon?

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