SA's schools to get R7bn windfall to hire assistants

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A total of 319,000 education assistants and other assistants will be employed at the country’s 23,093 public schools after the National Treasury approved a R7bn funding request from the basic education department.

In August, the National Alliance of Independent Schools Associations asked basic education minister Angie Motshekga to establish a R2bn relief fund for those struggling private schools that were facing closure.

Some of the department’s recommendations concerning the employment of education assistants and other assistants were:recruitment to be from the communities where schools are located; governing bodies to be delegated to recruit and appoint, and school management teams be delegated to manage assistants;

 

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