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A recent report aimed at understanding the key challenges facing South Africa’s education system says that profoundly unequal access to quality education lies at the heart of the country’s extreme and persistent levels of inequality.Despite nearly three decades since the advent of democracy, an inequitable education system persists, perpetuating an inter-generational cycle of education and income inequality.
The education system has long been criticised for not attracting suitably strong and sufficiently motivated candidates to become teachers with teaching degrees attracting some of the weakest school leavers with university exemptions. Numerous studies in recent years have pointed to teachers’ lack of subject matter knowledge. Alarmingly, 80% of grade 6 learners are taught maths by teachers whose maths knowledge is below grade 6 level and only 55% of teachers meet the intermediate benchmark of Progress in International Reading Literacy Study . When nearly half of teachers don’t meet the benchmark requirements we should not be surprised that the majority of grade four learners can’t read for meaning.
Those learners who do manage to complete their schooling and secure a place at a university, often find that they are ill-prepared for the demands of tertiary education because of the learning deficits they carried through school, says the report. The report’s authors argue that “Either UNISA must improve its offerings or other competitors should step in and meet this need. South Africa cannot afford to carry on with the current situation.”
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