The shocking state of education in South Africa

Several reports released by the Centre for Development and Enterprise highlight the dire state of education in South Africa.

South Africa has one of the worst-performing education systems in the world, plagued by incompetence and corruption, and the Centre for Development and Enterprise is calling for the head of the minister of basic education, among other things.

To justify such outlays in the context of rising fiscal pressures in 2023, we should expect globally competitive learning levels, a reduction in learning inequality, new opportunities for children from poor households, and a large, trainable workforce.Levels of education are circling the drain This is evident in the several international benchmark assessments Sout Africa have participated in over the past two decades, with some of the most notable results being:

The report noted, for example, that the typical Grade 6 child in Kenya is around two to three years of learning ahead of a Grade 6 learner in the Eastern Cape. In maths, for example, the proficiency levels of South African teachers rank far below that of their peers in Kenya and Zimbabwe .

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