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• The Further Education and Training (FET) Curricula

• Who benefits from outcomes of G8?

• NEDLAC - Dirty manoeuvres

• Racism, inequality and reforms

• Notes in school

• Thoughts to ponder

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• Matric results: Outcomes of a flawed system

• The skills crisis - Its causes and possible solutions

• Notes and comments on Budget 2006

• A social necessity

• Notes in school

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• The run-up to the 14 April 2004 Elections

• Unemployment and the land question

• Why the fuss about GM crops

• Notes in schools

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• Who steals our economic surplus?

• More debate about GMOs - Food politics

• Unemployment: No solution under capitalism

• Notes in schools

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• The sad and sorry truths about SA education

• Budget 2004: A poor man's guide

• What is really happening in our schools?

• Notes in schools

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• Making a silk purse out of a sow's ear?

• Equipping pupils with literacy and numeracy skills

• BEE and employment

• Notes in school

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• Lessons from the Bush Africa circus

• Teacher, which history did you teach?

• Third WC NUPSAW Regional Congress

• Shocking revelations in education

• Notes in school

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• The Cancun WTO Conference

• A new Matric (FET) Certificate

• Unemployment: The curse of neo-liberalism

• A tribute: Abraham (Abe) Fortuin

• NUPSAW News

• Edward Said - Radical, humanist...

• Notes in school

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• The empire strikes back - A second time!

• Teacher, which history do you teach? (II)

• A tribute: David Henry Isaacs

• The poison of hope - The deadly virus of gambling

• Notes in school

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• Confusion worse confounded: Schools in crisis

• Education in Africa: Focus on three areas

• The FET drama: Production with no script, no cast?

• Notes in school