Science & Education

Bright Beginnings Preschool’s Linden campus opened this year and has quickly settled into a happy rhythm that defines a nurturing early childhood development environment, with teachers, helpers and children now firmly finding their feet. The opening of the Linden branch has been welcomed by numerous parents with small children

Education Is the Frontline of Inequality, Business Must Show Up, Insights by Ntombizone Feni, Group CEO of 21st Century In South Africa, inequality isn’t abstract. It shows up in schools that do more with less, in families stretched thin, and in young people who carry adult responsibilities long before

Today’s learners don’t just bring backpacks into classrooms; they bring the emotional weight of a world that rarely gives them room to breathe. They arrive overstimulated, distracted and carrying silent expectations they never asked for: to keep up, fit in, impress, perform and be “okay.” Their attention is

Bullying remains one of the most significant and under-addressed threats to learner well-being. Defined as repeated, intentional harm within a power imbalance, bullying creates a climate of fear that affects children emotionally, socially and academically. Global data from UNICEF and the World Health Organisation show that roughly one in three

There is a quiet crisis in South Africa: gifted children falling through the cracks because so few people truly understand what giftedness looks like. We tend to imagine giftedness as perfect grades and calm confidence. We picture a child who intuitively excels at everything. Meanwhile, real gifted children are often

Every year around this time, Grade 9 learners sit down with subject lists and a knot in their stomach. We tell them the right combination will unlock the future — but for many, it isn’t the subjects that break them. It’s the system itself: one that prizes exams over