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Johannesburg – Private education group AdvTech yesterday announced that its R850 million rights issue that closed last week had been oversubscribed and that the company had raised funding [...]

Case Study Enko Education

PRIVATE education provider Curro is investing about R250m as part of its plans to expand into the provision of tertiary education. The group provides education from nursery schooling to training [...]

In the United States, the persistence of K-12 teaching as a predominantly female profession is sometimes lamented as a sign that certain workforce gender conventions prevail. In fact, things may [...]

The Department of Basic Education has received a donation of R117-million – to be made over a period of 10 years – from the Motsepe Foundation towards sporting and cultural competitions.Of this, [...]

Bailey Thomson and SPARK Schools are helping to break ground on education in Africa.  SPARK schools — a chain of private schools in South Africa for which Thomson is the director of school [...]

LOW-KEY investment company Trematon has made a promising first pitch into the vibrant private school market.   Year to end-August results released at the weekend confirmed Trematon’s new private [...]

PRIVATE education conglomerate Advtech, which has its shares trading at a record high, has garnered strong backing for its proposed R850m rights offer. On Tuesday, the company — which owns the [...]

SOUTH Africa’s stock exchange has dropped an investigation into an insider trading claim made against the former chairman of private education firm Advtech following a takeover bid. The JSE said [...]

SALMAN KHAN SITS at the head of a conference table, surrounded by about a dozen children, talking about Hitler. It’s late June, nine months into the first year at Khan Lab School, Khan’s [...]