The Department of Basic Education has published its latest School Monitoring Survey, showing where the country’s schools are improving and also where things are getting worse. The survey was commissioned by the department in 2017, and sought to measure the progress of public schools through to 2019. Across the major indicators, the department measured areas..
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South Africa’s education system has another problem: As many as one in 10 teachers at public schools are AWOL on any given day
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Month-end 33% of teachers in black South African schools are AWOL – Inadequate funding is not the main cause of South Africa’s poor-quality education, the teachers are the problem!
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IMF report slams SA’s education folly – Costly, politically expedient interventions will not fix SA’s dysfunctional education system; we must tackle the root causes of the problem. Without addressing the weak foundations at the primary and secondary school levels, the government’s flagship policy of free tertiary education is likely to deliver disappointing results. At worst,..
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Vital clinic in Eastern Cape has only 1 doctor twice a month
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Close to eight villages in Nxarhuni outside Mdantsane in East London depend on Newlands Clinic. But the clinic has only one doctor who comes in twice a month, according to a GroundUp report. A clinic committee member who did not want to be named said: “The doctor comes on the first Monday of the month,..
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