The year 2022 marks St Andrew’s School for Girls monumental 120th anniversary. When we look back over the years, we...
I had always had a love for mathematics and science, and that is how my mother discovered the ISASA South African Mathematics and Science Teacher Intern Programme (SAMSTIP).
Africa is emerging from its history of colonisation and is fast becoming a continent of innovation and development. Hence it...
I confess that I, too, once believed that independent schools were too privileged a setting in which to learn about the challenges of life. However, I have had a 180-degree turnaround in my opinions.
The need for personal and professional support for inclusive education (IE) practitioners in South Africa is more important now than ever before. Can we develop safe and effective IE professional supervision in schools?
Independent schools can move from good intentions towards measurable impact in the outreach space, in a new age of scrutiny, accountability and relevance. Insularity is no longer an option.
As independent schools we may understand that our privileged space comes with responsibility, but it is not always easy to turn empathy into action and a handout into a hand up. What is needed is a partnership.