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The Gauteng Department of Education is a provincial government department under the Gauteng Provincial Government responsible for overseeing and regulating the basic education system in the Gauteng province of South Africa in accordance with the South African Schools Act of 1996.
Pretoria High School for Girls (often called PHSG), is a full-government, fee-charging, English-medium high school for girls located in Hatfield, Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It is the sister school to Pretoria Boys High School .
A caricature of Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1854–1925), founder of the Pretoria Boys High School (Vanity Fair, 1897).. The antecedent of the current school is the historic Staats Model School, built 1896-1897 [1] [2] by the government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (later Transvaal) in central Pretoria.
The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) is a South African independent assessment agency which offers examinations for various client schools, mostly private schools.It is most prominent in setting examinations for the school-leaving National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination, a qualification that replaced the Senior Certificate and Further Education and Training Certificate.
Boksburg High School is a public high school in Boksburg, a suburb of Ekurhuleni, South Africa. The school was founded in 1920 as the Rand East Training and Preparatory College under its first Principal, Mr Charter. [ 1 ]
King Edward VII School (KES) is a public English medium high school for boys situated within the city of Johannesburg in South Africa's Gauteng Province, one of the historically significant Milner Schools. The school is a public school, with an enrollment of over 1,100 boys from grades 8 to 12 (ages 13 to 18).
To counter the British influence, a group of Afrikaner churches proposed an education program, Christian National Education, to serve as the core of the school curriculum. The government initially refused to fund schools adopting this program, but Jan C. Smuts, the Transvaal leader who later became Prime Minister, was strongly committed to ...
The Education Department suggested that the school buildings might be used as a hostel for the newly established girls high school in Arcadia called Pretoria High School for Girls. When the Bishop William Carter was appointed as second Bishop of Pretoria (1903–1909). He fervently opposed the absorbing of church schools by the government.