Is the education system in South Africa going to be it's Achilles heel eventually?

[Darth Vader]

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=86908&sn=Detail

[cheri]

Yes indeed the class standards is already very low and it means we have to get people from outside SA and cripple the already poor communities even further

[turniton6]

Whites, Indians and Coloureds are a captive audience in the ANC's education system of incompetence, waiting for the ANC to (in theory) get some demographics right, which in all likely hood has only worsened in the last 14 years, and with the ANC in charge may never happen.
It's like watching the ANC "pomping for virginity".
It's not going to happen while the usual suspects get scr&wed.

A statistic which I found quite revealing is this one:
"although the number of white pupils writing the government matric has now declined by over a third."
This one third who are no longer here have parents who are also no longer here.
Can one deduce from this that the white population in SA between the ages of teenagers and their parents (late 30s, 40s) has reduced by a third?

[zxcv]

I really do think so Darth, if things are not sorted out very,very quickly, as it is there is a massive brain drain in the country.

[Lise K]

Yes Darth and they are lowering the system all the time to make it easier for the children to pass. In Government schools it is basically impossible for kids to fail, they just get put through to the next grade .....and so the decline start. Private Schools are the only solution.

[hlnlange]

The Department of Education has fully implemented OBE this year. The teachers however are not equipt and trained to sustain this new system. Most of the rural schools in the Eastern Cape doesn't even have the basic things like chairs -and yet the Department of Educations finds new and innovative projects to spend money on like R1000.00 dictionaries for each school. Since the new Curriculum was implemented, it has changed so many times that they will have to start all over from Grade R in buying learning material as those that was recommended then are not relevant now. That means that all the money spent in the first year of implementation was all for nothing. They could have spent that money on training the teachers better and supply basic things.

[Commander MJ]

I think it will be in most countries with the dumbing down of education that is now seen as a vocational training in order to produce lots of good little capitalists. The education system is producing a mass of grey robots with no capacity for independent thought and ignorance of the facts!

[Jacci]

Yes...the education system totally sucks!
Multiple choice questions and spot the difference between two pics in high school tests/exams...what are the kids learning?

[Ayiza]

Yes it will be.
And I blame the tertiary institutions of SA.
They always come out after the matric exams and they complain about the quality of students.
They are suppose to be doing research and making suggestions to the government but they don't.
The education department is the most open out all the government departments and the tertiary people do take advantage.
Infact they train the teachers.

But I heard on 702 this morning that they are going to be reviewing education system again.
Hopefully the clever tertiary people will have something constructive to add.

[Slipperman]

Yes, you gotta love the way that the students can't even mark whether they are Black, White or Asian properly...

And we still get a 65% pass rate....