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Celebrating 108 GADRA Matric School and 9/10s mentees graduating
Posted by Gadra on 15 Apr 2025
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188 local disadvantaged students registered at Rhodes in 2025
Posted by Gadra on 03 Feb 2025
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Nqobile Msomi's Doctoral Thesis concludes that GADRA Education engenders hope and drives educational change in the City of Makhanda.
Posted by Gadra on 11 Oct 2024
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What a night of celebration! Education in Makhanda is reaching new heights! Rhodes University VC, Prof Sizwe Mabizela addressed an excited room of Education Leaders, all attending the 2024 inaugural annual Makhanda Teacher Awards celebrated last night.
Posted by Gadra on 29 Aug 2024
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External Evaluator’s Stamp of approval on Whistle Stop School
Posted by Gadra on 22 May 2024
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Read more about the results of the GADRA Education and Rhodes University Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education quantitative study investigating the comprehension skills of all Grade 4 learners attending public primary schools in Makhanda.
Posted by Gadra on 30 Nov 2023
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40% of Grade 4 children in Makhanda are able to read for meaning, more than double the national rate of just 19% (PIRLS 2021).
Posted by Gadra on 10 Nov 2023
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51 GMS alumni walked proudly across the stage at the various Rhodes University graduation ceremonies held last week. This is the fifth consecutive year that GMS has been the feeder school which has produced the largest number of Rhodes University graduates.
Posted by Gadra on 03 Apr 2023
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The Makhanda Matric Class of 2022 has delivered a generally very pleasing set of results in the NSC examinations.
Posted by Gadra on 21 Jan 2023
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Makhanda's 2022 Matric results show that GADRA Education is at the forefront of the current transformation and revitalisation of public schooling across the city.
Posted by Gadra on 20 Jan 2023
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Recent External Evaluation concludes that GADRA Education has directly and indirectly contributed towards the favourable transformation of the public schooling system in Makhanda.
Posted by Gadra on 29 Apr 2022
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This review, written by Ashley Westaway, Kelly Long and Cathy Meiklejohn of GADRA Education and Lise Westaway of the Rhodes Education Department, provides an overview of the scope and type of primary school literacy interventions in the last 15 years.
Posted by Gadra on 23 Aug 2021
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This paper, written by Claire McCann and Anna Talbot of Rhodes University and Ashley Westaway of GADRA Education, explores the Nine Tenths Mentoring Programme as a solution for educational justice in South Africa.
Posted by Gadra on 01 Jun 2021
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GADRA is proud to be associated with Rhodes University - the first SA university to win top spot in a prestigious prize for global citizenship.
Posted by Gadra on 29 May 2021
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Makhanda schools have bounced back from the disappointing results of 2019 in style and in the process recorded a collective pass rate of 80% for the first time in the city’s history.
Posted by Gadra on 26 Feb 2021
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The public school matriculants of 2019 have failed to reach the stellar heights scaled by their 2018 predecessors. Read more in the full report.
Posted by Gadra on 10 Jan 2019
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The public school Class of 2018 has produced the best set of matric results in the history of Makhanda (Grahamstown).
Posted by Gadra on 31 Dec 2018
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