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Norman Ntai started the forum topic ILO Campaign: How will you help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals at work ?#Work4SDGs in the group
Poverty & Unemployment: 5 years, 5 months agoILO Campaign: How will you help to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals at work ?
23 September 2015
Dear Colleagues,
The ILO has launched today a social media campaign asking ILO’s constituents, in par […] -
Norman Ntai started the forum topic MDG Momentum: UN launches 500 days of action to build a better world…Has South Africa delivered on #MDGs? in the group
Poverty & Unemployment: 6 years, 6 months agoMDG Momentum: UN launches 500 days of action to build a better world
United Nations, 19 August 2014
New York, 18 August 2014 – With Malala Yousafzai by his side, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today marked 500 da […] -
Norman Ntai started the forum topic Why is the RPL Conference not 'open' to the beneficiaries of RPL instruments; Workers? in the group
The NQF, Articulation, & RPL: 7 years ago -
Norman Ntai started the forum topic Workshop on the revised National Policy for the Implementation of the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) – Are you attending? in the group
The NQF, Articulation, & RPL: 7 years agoWorkshop on the revised National Policy for the Implementation of the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) 23 February 2014 at Kopanong Conference Centre, Benoni Feb […]
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Norman Ntai replied to the topic Should Union Shop Stewards be qualified? in the forum Industrial relations issues including retrenchment, discipline & dismissal 8 years, 4 months ago
Shop Steward as an Educator-Androgogue………………. Many of Shop Steward elected have in many instances undermined the importance of becoming one. Gone are the days wherein to be a Shop Steward you must be loudest shouting comrade, whose interest in anarchy and un-controllable militancy.
It is a scientific role which demands a lot of c…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Should Union Shop Stewards be qualified? in the forum Industrial relations issues including retrenchment, discipline & dismissal 8 years, 4 months ago
Becoming a Shop Steward; a learning terrain for and on behalf of the toiling class…..and The below narrative endorses what comrade Squires has amplified…………from SAQA Many of Shop Steward elected have in many instances undermined the importance of becoming one. Gone are the days wherein to be a Shop Steward you must be loudest…[Read more]
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Norman Ntai replied to the topic Should Union Shop Stewards be qualified? in the forum Industrial relations issues including retrenchment, discipline & dismissal 8 years, 4 months ago
Dear Skills Universe lovely practitioners…..Pedagogues and Androgogues
Comrades Squires has raised a very revolutionary debate and supporting such a sustainable, lif-long learning thinking cap.And my contribution will based on a piece I prepared previously……………………
Multi-tasking; a superlative degree of quality for a Shop…[Read more]
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Norman Ntai replied to the topic Uncelebrated profession;Trade Union Educators……Celebrating World Teachers' Day in the forum Seeking Accreditation or Training material 8 years, 4 months ago
he Presidency, 5 October 2012 President Zuma Wishes All Teachers a Happy World Teachers’ Day
On this, the UNESCO World Teachers Day, President Jacob Zuma would like to thank all our South African teachers for their excellent contribution to educating and developing our children, thus opening brighter horizons for their future. …[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Uncelebrated profession;Trade Union Educators……Celebrating World Teachers' Day in the forum Seeking Accreditation or Training material 8 years, 4 months ago
UNESCO launches eAtlas of teachers
Irine Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, 05 October 2012
At the occasion of World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO has released its eAtlas of Teachers, which helps visualise the gaps in the supply and demand for teachers at national and global levels.
Already, it reveals that massive teacher shortages are quietly loo…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Uncelebrated profession;Trade Union Educators……Celebrating World Teachers' Day in the forum Seeking Accreditation or Training material 8 years, 4 months ago
Teachers struggle to be top of the class
GENEVA (ILO News) Feature, 05 October 2012
Teachers face severe challenges in different parts of the world and are still under pressure to produce results. As the profession marks World Teachers Day, two teachers working thousands of miles apart tell their stories.
GENEVA (ILO News) Amina* has been t…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Uncelebrated profession;Trade Union Educators……Celebrating World Teachers' Day in the forum Seeking Accreditation or Training material 8 years, 4 months ago
The Secretary-General of United Nations Message on World Teachers’ Day 5 October 2012
No education system is better than its teachers. Teachers are the custodians of learning; they impart knowledge, values and skills; at their best, they tap into the hopes and talents of young people and help them to grow into productive citizens.
Yet too…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Uncelebrated profession;Trade Union Educators……Celebrating World Teachers' Day in the forum Seeking Accreditation or Training material 8 years, 4 months ago
World Teachers’ Day 2012: Take a stand for teachers!
Irine Bokova, UNESCO Director-General, 04 October 2012
“Take a stand for teachers!” is the slogan of World Teachers’ Day 2012 (5 October) which UNESCO is celebrating along with its partners, the International Labour Organization, UNDP, UNICEF and Education International (EI).
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Norman Ntai replied to the topic Awaiting Education Transformation Resolutions…. in the forum Education, ECD, Post-school Education & Training 8 years, 8 months ago
Dear Sylvia…
Kindly receive my warm regards after an awesome weekend….finally the Limpopo textbook saga is dissipating,with some ‘books’ delivered!
And I have secured the soft-copy and the posting will be coming shortly….some snippets ”’All former teacher training college sites that are not used directly for education purposes, other…[Read more]
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Norman Ntai replied to the topic COSATU ANC Policy Conference Education Proposals. What's your view? in the forum Education, ECD, Post-school Education & Training 8 years, 8 months ago
Thanx for all the thoughts…im back from Midrand!
I’ll share with all the outcomes of the commission on Social Transformation as and when such is made available….
Someone comment of ‘whose revolution?’And my response it that it was a revolution against white supremacy,with a government for the people,by the people….unless we are ignorant of…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic COSATU ANC Policy Conference Education Proposals. What's your view? in the forum Education, ECD, Post-school Education & Training 8 years, 8 months ago
Hi all;
All the respondents made quite interesting points and the onus lies with us;name and shame non-implimentors on any policy agreed upon.my thanx to madam Sylvia,Kosheek,Thami,Derrick,Babsie,Thami,Stefanos and others,in no particular order.you made brilliant comments.
But how often had such comments become the ‘buzzing words’ for…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai replied to the topic Norman Mampane joins COSATU as Communications Officer in the forum Industrial relations issues including retrenchment, discipline & dismissal 8 years, 8 months ago
Its awesome to receive such warm-hearted appreciation madam Newman. Your commentry will be banked in my most precious memories for my auto-biography coming soon.My contributions will entail sending messages that matters for the toiling classes across all sectors of the economy and elsewhere.
The SACP recently called it, ‘The battle of ideas is an…[Read more] -
Norman Ntai wrote a new post, "Choosing the Right Moment to shaping the future" 9 years, 6 months ago
Dear Sir/Madam
The National Planning Commission [NPC] has just shortly launched what is called NPC JAM in which all South African are called to participate in shaping the “2030 Vision”,on the basis of the […] -
Norman Ntai wrote a new post, 'Papsak payments' in Western Cape farms displays empty brains [shells] of farmers 9 years, 6 months ago
It is quite shocking in the era of our democracy to have research reports selectively accepted.The Human Rights Watch Research Report was taken as ‘lacking substance’, on facts it revealed that actually [farm] […]
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Norman Ntai wrote a new post, "Kgaka ya hwa,mae a bola!",are we really a prejudiced society? 9 years, 6 months ago
Kgaka ya hwa, Mae a bola!, are we really a prejudiced society?
Whilst we are virginally in the women’s month, it is lettered to interrogate some of the unwritten laws of nature and perhaps the implications of s […] -
Norman Ntai wrote a new post, POPCRU argues that South Africa has unfair and wrong disparities of income 9 years, 6 months ago
POPCRU argues that South Africa has unfair and wrong disparities of income
The COSATU Living Wage Campaign has hit the nail on the wage deferential in the current conjuncture. Many workers are squeezed against […] - Load More
