Equal Education , the Equal Education Law Centre and five parents launched an urgent court application against the Western Cape Government and the Department of Basic Education for the immediate placement of unplaced learners in schools in the Western Cape’s Metro East Education District., EE says learner placement in the Western Cape remains a ‘long-standing systemic issue that the Western Cape Education Department continuously fail to adequately plan for’.
‘However, all of these attempts have failed to result in significant change or an agreement by the department to plan better.’ The EE further states that there is no policy in place to address this issue, resulting in learners not attending school. ‘Non-access to education for these learners worsens the inequality in the Western Cape. Applying late does not mean that learners should lose their right to access education.’
EE also calls on the head of the department to produce an investigative report on why the learners have not been placed.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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