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South Africa: KZN Teachers Launch Historic TV Broadcast Sibongile Majola, AllAfrica.com, Durban, 29 July 2014 The South African Democratic Teachers Union in KwaZulu-Natal has launched a historic a teacher development television programme. The launch, said to be a first by a teacher union, is in partnership with Mindset, Telkom, Inkunzi, Hauwei, HP, Vortex, Cyberschool Technology and 247 Technologies. According to Provincial Secretary Mbuyiseni Mathonsi, the launch of the programme was a direct response to challenges facing teachers. "It is well known that black teachers were not allowed to do Maths and Science and that affected the quality of teaching. We felt we could no longer fold hands and be spectators and allow the situation to get worse. The programme will address issues of teacher training. If you can solve challenges around education, start with teachers first," Mathonsi said. The programmes will also look at developing non-educators and matrics. It is being piloted in KwaZulu Natal but will eventually be spread across the entire country. For this to be possible, SADTU in KwaZulu/Natal had to partner with some firms and like-minded partners, build a broadcast studio in SADTU's provincial office in Durban and create teacher development television programmes. Ten teachers' centres in provincial districts will be equipped with viewing technology including TVs, satellite dishes and servers to store content. Teachers will be provided with detailed broadcast schedules in advance, and can interact with presenters via SMS, telephone and social media live during the broadcasts. This will be shown on DSTV's channel 309. From: http://allafrica.com/stories/201407300136.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
