Survey shows substandard infrastructure and lack of basic services continue to be barriers to quality education
Education minister Angie Motshekga. Picture: CEBISILE MBONANI
Education lobby group Equal Education has long campaigned for minimum standards to be introduced in school infrastructure. In 2018, a court ruled in the lobby group’s favour and ordered basic education minister Angie Motshekga to fix the loopholes in the legislation regarding the minimum standards for school infrastructure.
Ideally each classroom should have 40 pupils per class. Nationally, 67% of schools had sufficient classrooms. The national average for teacher absence on an average day was 10%, with wide variations noted within primary and secondary schools, as well as across provinces.
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