The Mpumalanga Department of Education has wasted taxpayers’ money for most of 2022 whilst failing to sort out a very simple administrative role for underprivileged students on government bursaries in Russia.Â
South Africa’s public basic education system is one of the most dysfunctional in the world and the destructive centralisation contemplated in the proposed BELA Bill is certainly counterproductive.
Without the cornerstones of language learning and maths lost during lockdown, the prospect of nurturing employment in SA is depressing.
A new report from the University of Stellenbosch claims that schoolchildren in South Africa have lost approximately 1.3 years of schooling since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
Mossel Bay resident Pieter Steenekamp was inspired by BizNews to fix South Africa’s education system with a low-cost ‘granny model’.
Humanity has achieved considerable success over reducing mortality, but outside of the First World, has failed woefully in controlling the birth rate.
CEO Radhakrishnan Nair provides hints that there are plans to take-over local schools that aren’t performing optimally as Athena expands aggressively.
‘The next generation will grow up differently. We have managed to reduce the dropout rate to about zero at the school. Our next vision is to have zero unemployment.’
About 10% of the country’s teachers are absent from school each day, while 79% Grade 6 math teachers have insufficient content knowledge levels.
This year’s numbers indicate a rise in those who passed their Matric compared to the previous year. But reading between the lines tells a worrying tale.