Zenex Gives Teachers a Boost in Maths and English Teaching Skills

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BYLINE: sarah-jane bosch

Almost 90 teachers have benefited from the Zenex Foundation's close-to-R7 million flagship accredited teacher training programme, which equips teachers with accredited qualifications to teach maths and English in FET colleges at Grades 10 to 12 and the foundation phase (Grades 1 to 3).

Zenex Foundation recently celebrated the graduation of 59 teachers who obtained their B Ed Mathematics degrees from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. These graduates join 27 who graduated in March from Rhodes University.

The teachers, all currently employed at government schools, completed the B Ed over four years while continuing to work at schools all over the country. They were drawn from Eastern …