The announcement by the minister of basic education to formalise the General Education Certificate has been met with outrage and correctly so. Hendrik Verwoerd and DF Malan must be singing in their graves as millions of black youth, African and coloured in particular, continue to be condemned to being hewers of wood and drawers of water.
No doubt, very few developing countries’ tertiary education systems can manage to send their entire populations to colleges and universities. With over a billion people each, emerging economies such as China and India cannot afford to send every single citizen to college, never mind university. We must agree too, that not everyone should go to university nor even college but the development of critical and scarce skills remain a developmental imperative for South Africa. Artisans, among other technical skills, are sorely needed.
According to the UN Development Programme’s Human Development Reports, in 1994, the expected number of years in schooling was 12 years for South Africa. By 2017, with the introduction of Grade R, it had increased to 13 years. The report suggests that this is the number of years of schooling that a child of school entrance age can expect to receive if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout the child’s life.
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This is the outcome of seeds planted when politics meets education....what you sow you shall reap. So much money and resources wasted on the wrong things in education. Officials r appointed as experts yet get NGOs to do in service training. Many wrongs never 2 b corrected!
Dumbing down education successfully executed. Grade 9 is the exit point for all the children sabotaged by the ANCs education system. Today kids go to school to copy from the board learning absolutely nothing. As long as the writing books are filled with content.
VijayShadean By 'African child' does he mean black African children or all African children? Because this sounds like a racist article !!!?
The height of stupidity!
One should never stop learning
The result of pensioners as ministers this useless gogo's must sit at home and care for their daughters children.
Absolutely horrendous move. MYANC and Our_DA should be fighting for a better education. You need a matric just to get an apprenticeship.
This drunkered minister must be recalled,she's a self-hating WMC apologist 'Imagine a learner leaving for a college now with a weak Grade 9 instead of a weak Grade 12'
MYANC wants to stifle the future of Black schoolkids.. A worthless Grade 9 School leaving certificate is DBE_SA version of a degree. GovernmentZA chooses to ignore the glaring problems affecting schools- Overcrowding Lack of resources Under staffed Culture of indiscipline.
I blame white monopoly capital
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