2010 Education Changes

From next year, pupils across the country will do fewer projects, and teachers' workloads will be reduced, as a result of the changes the Department of Basic Education is making to the National Education Curriculum.

However, Centre for Education Rights and Transformation at the University of Johannesburg says that many of the problems in education were not necessarily because of the curriculum.

The Centre’s Salim Vally argues that some of the issues that need to be dealt with are teacher training, early childhood development and access to books. Vally says only seven percent of schools in the country has libraries, adding that in some provinces, only two percent have libraries.

To read the article titled, “Education gets make-over from Motshekga,” click here.