South Africa’s education system, and the departments involved, have long been criticised for their seeming preoccupation with matric results. Critics point to the failure in results — and wider societal problems — and say more attention needs to be paid to children at different levels in the system. This is particularly true for learners in the foundation phase, in the first years of their lives.
This is in line with the proposal by the National Development Plan that by 2024 the country introduces two years of compulsory early childhood development for all children before they enter grade one. The plan says that 75% of four- to five-year-olds should participate in formal early childhood education.
Education MECs in different provinces have used their recent budget speeches to flesh out the elements that money will be spent on getting the education system ready. This responsibility used to fall under the social development department — which is nominally in charge of all things early childhood development — but there is a process to migrate it to basic education as was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in February.
Panyaza Lesufi, the MEC for education in Gauteng, said in his budget speech that less than 30% of the children under the age of four in Gauteng were enrolled in a pre-school programme. According to the study, the current landscape in which the early childhood development sector operates does not “lend itself to the implementation of a high-quality service”.
The ONLY way of improving the education system is to have properly trained staff that are motivated to improve the lives of learners. It is much more than a source of income. You have the future of this country in your hands. Being late and absent for days on end are nonsense!
Education system must focus on application of knowledge and not emphasis exams and the regurgitation of information for tests and exams. That’s where Mzansi education system is failing us. Our learners are taught to pass exams, not to know subject matter.
Children are given marks to pass.
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