An insider’s view: Private school and the true source of success
Lush manicured lawns, posh accents, and parents with executive positions. Private Schooling – is it worth the costs?
Lush manicured lawns, posh accents, and parents with executive positions. Private Schooling – is it worth the costs?
Ted Black takes a look at Curro. Starting in a church vestry with 28 pupils in 1998, it now teaches more than 60,000 in 175 schools on 76 campuses.
Anthea Jeffery is advocating for “tax-funded schooling vouchers”, which she sees as a way of enabling not only middle class kids, but also ones from poorer families to attend independent school.
Curro, South Africa’s largest JSE-listed independent school education provider, saw headline earnings from continuing operations increase 23% (from R201m to R248m).
Ed Herbst highlights the failings on government’s side, which lead to the education crisis, and on Curro’s side just another business opportunity.
It was bound to happen. A private company to set the ball rolling on filling a void created by the ongoing #FeesMustFall movement.
Biznews community member Errol Horwitz says we owe it to the children of South Africa to overhaul the current education system. Here are his thoughts.