Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Government to review the country’s school grading system

Lusanda Bill
3 November 2010

The Education Department has announced today that government is reviewing the country’s school grading system.

The department’s Acting Deputy Director-General Paddy Padayachee said “what prompted the rethink is that in most cases they find more poor learners are moving into Model C schools”.

She added that the policy needs to be reviewed in that we need to look at the actual learner and the socio-economic background the learner comes from.

Some of teachers in our country are claiming that schools in non-affluent areas are struggling to get larger portions of grants from the department.

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