Multigrade schools and classrooms are the only means of formal education for 30% of primary school learners in the world.
There have been a number of calls recently to intensify local and community participation in school education. Teacher unions, education MECs, the ANC, committees of enquiry as well as research projects have expressed the need for greater opportunity for local structures and organisations to play a role in the strengthening and transformation of formal education at school level.
Education development centres could be the key to much-needed teacher support THE need for a rethink on the ways in which support for qualified teachers is offered and made available is acute. The first instance of this need is provided by figures quoted in the 1999 Education for All 2000 Assessment: South Africa Report. Examples […]
Peter Brown is likely to be remembered in South Africa as the national chairperson of the Liberal Party. He was one of its founders in 1953 and was its chairperson when it disbanded in 1968, owing to the prohibition of racially mixed political organisations. Michael Gardiner pays tribute to the deceased.
South Africa’s current educational system is very young and very new. The major legislation that expunged the labyrinthine, racist and pedagogically brutal system of the apartheid era was passed by Parliament in 1996, a mere six years ago. And in that brief period, massive attempts have been made to reorient the system of schooling.