New Head for St Agustine’s Primary!
St Augustine’s Primary School in Durban celebrates the appointment of Craig Thomas as the first male principal of the school. A small reception was held at the school. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier attended to give...
Category: Education
Pens, Books and the Colosseum
My university education has been a long and difficult journey. I have changed courses multiple times and even now, in the final year of my undergraduate degree, I am uncertain as to what doors...
Marist Brothers for Nazareth House!
Grade 6 students at Marist Brothers Linmeyer, in southern Johannesburg, supported the school’s outreach programme by collecting biscuits for Nazareth House. More Stories: Salesians Give Training and Hope to Jobless Youth Catholic Students’ Jubilee...
Author Marco Broccardo: You Can Beat Drugs
Author Marco Broccardo visited Holy Rosary High School in Edenvale, Johannesburg, to speak about his new book Rocks: One Man’s Climb from Drugs to Dreams. In his talk, Mr Broccardo detailed his struggle with...
Salesians Life Choices to Offer New Low-Cost MBA
Salesian Life Choices, in partnership with Tom Ryan, co-designer of the renowned UCT Graduate School of Business’ pioneering executive MBA, is offering a master’s degree in business administration—an MBA opportunity at a fraction of the cost of a standard MBA.
St Joseph’s Theological Institute Students Graduate on High!
The 13th graduation ceremony at St Joseph’s Theological Institute (SJTI) in Cedara saw 15 students receive bachelor of arts degrees and higher and advanced certificates with first-class and distinction across the departments of theology, philosophy and development studies.
School Launches Anti-Bullying App
A Catholic school in Johannesburg has rolled out an anonymous reporting system that lets learners and staff members report bullying and inappropriate behaviour via a cellphone app.
Teaching Refugee Children: A Decade of Success
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, a project started by a Catholic school for the education of refugee children will hold a special function in April. The Three2Six Refugee Children’s Education Project in Johannesburg was developed by Sacred Heart College in 2008, and later expanded to Observatory Girls Primary School and Holy Family College.
Salesian Job-Training Courses Offered
A youth project in Cape Town is offering various skills courses in the fields of computers, food preparation, bricklaying, and sewing — for only R200 each.
‘Worming’ Your Way to Loving Language
Witbank diocese’s Catholic Young Adults group is running children’s literacy classes, with competitions between parishes.
Three Catholic Schools Join Up in Prayer & Friendship
As is annual tradition, the matrics of Assumption Convent School in Germiston, Johannesburg, St Benedict’s College in Bedfordview, and Holy Rosary School in Edenvale joined for Mass and a breakfast to unite in prayer and friendship during their final...
Waterwise Schooling Looks to the Future
Grade 8 students from Brescia House School in Johannesburg went on a waterwise tour around their school with operations manager Paul Matthews.
