After 30 years of neglect, there is a mountain to climb in the education sector.
With the seventh democratic elections around the corner, media houses are calling to ask what advice one would give the next government on education. Because this is our seventh political rodeo, I have learnt some hard lessons about making idealistic statements about what should be, when you know for a fact that pipe dreams are not policies. So here is a hard-nosed assessment of what needs to be done and what is likely to succeed, or not, with respect to schools...
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