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DEPARTMENT OF BASIC EDUCATION

New education certificate could help limit school dropouts

To be effective, the General Education Certificate must plug gaps, not create new ones

  • Kristal Duncan-Williams
  • Rahima Essop
  • Merle Mansfield
6 min read
Grade 11 learner ( who wish to remain anonymous) from Onkgopotse Tiro Combine School has resorted in assisting in building his mother’s new home to keep busy and to learn in order to prepare himself for a civil engeneering course that he wants to persue when he finished school. Without any explanation from his school, he has been sitting at home since the beggining of the lockdown even though other learners from different schools have started attending. (Oupa Nkosi)
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Farmworkers’ children forgotten

They have been unable to return to their school in North West because the hostel is closed

  • Bongekile Macupe
7 min read
Equal Education has criticised last week’s medium term budget policy statement for what it said was a failure to provide adequate funding to the education sector. (Madelene Cronje)
COVID 19

School closures come at a cost

The latest, unscientific decision to close schools again won’t help poor students. Strategies must be identified to help learners stay in school

  • Nicola Vermooten
3 min read