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Children are over assessed. Tests are not the best way to gauge a child’s understanding of the content. Tests assess whether a child can write a test and nothing more. Assessments entail many skills and if a child does not test well, it does not necessarily mean that they do not understand the content. It just means that for one or another reason, they do not perform well in tests. Introducing assessments in Grade 1-3 is ludicrous, in my opinion. We are placing an unnecessary burden on our children when they are not emotionally ready to handle the pressures of assessment. At this age, teachers are very capable of determining if a child in their class understands the concepts taught or not, without formal assessments. The amount of teachers and parents that are pressurising 6-year-old children into doing better in tests is frightening. I have in this past week alone, dealt with 4 parents, whose children (between the ages of 7 – 10) have been diagnosed with anxiety related disorders, stemming from assessment related stress. This is most definitely not what education is about. Assessing in the early years serves absolutely no purpose and should be scrapped immediately.

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I agree with the points made.We have major cover ups all over the departments. The Education Minister is clueless as to what actually happens in schools. As if teen age pregnancy and drug abuse has been put aside and no programmes been set to educate the nation properly with good examples and talks and discussions. As a community Activist when I engaged with schools to do a campaign or presentation or awareness with the children in Ip and SENIOR , I was given 5 minutes in assembly. So I agree with how far are they willing to go to help the learners. It’s become curriculum curriculum and more curriculum: life skills and important factors that relate to it are sidelined.
Nasrin Kadwa

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To define the present system of education in South Africa one has to reflect on the education system pre 1994. The system was designed through thorough research analysis and implemented. As a result capacitated individials were able to join the workforce as  the offering catered was in humanities, sciences,trade and other fields.With the change in force post apartheid the system has crumbled with disastrous consequences The following needs to be re- introduced. 1. All education stakeholdersin the department must have appropriate qualification, experience and skills with a world view world view on education 2. All innovations from other countries must be well researched and clearly defined to succeed. many innovationsfrom other countries failed dismally because of lack of properly controlled implementation.

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To define the present system of education in South Africa one has to reflect on the education system pre 1994. The system was designed through thorough research analysis and implemented. As a result capacitated individials were able to join the workforce as  the offering catered was in humanities, sciences,trade and other fields.With the change in force post apartheid the system has crumbled with disastrous consequences The following needs to be re- introduced. 1. All education stakeholdersin the department must have appropriate qualification, experience and skills with a world view world view on education 2. All innovations from other countries must be well researched and clearly defined to succeed. many innovationsfrom other countries failed dismally because of lack of properly controlled implementation.

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3. Re- intrduce Teacher training colleges.
4. Build more universities, colleges, medical schools, Trade schools, and schools in the rural communities. The need for providing every childywith education is of paramount importance and a tool for success
5. Free education must be provided for all. 6. Introducing subjects such as sex education, LGBT is not helping the children but increasing schoolgirl pregnancies. 7. Raising the pass rate is just a ploy to indicate how well lthe system is being maintained. Good pass rate will produce sound individuals with good values, morals and ethics towards education, thus having a sound workforce. 9. Bring back inspectors to visit schools to evaluate teachers and upskill them. With sound upskilling they will make good professionals when promoted. Sadly the laziness of teachers has produced lazy students thus poor discipline, vandalism, burning of varsities and dropout at schools increasing youth unemployment rate. 10. Loss of skilled workforce through emigration caused by the poor education offered, has cost the country negatively. A serious rehaul of education provision must be examined for high quality of personnel to maintain world class education this country. We need a just , fair, equitable and viable education system with technology introducedin every school.

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I think that the South African education system is great, although the schools do tend to teach on a level 1-2 and expect students to immediately understand work based at level 3-4 and are tested majority on level 3-4.

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I feel that the SA educational system needs to re-look at the way it structures it offering.

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I feel that the SA educational system needs to re-look at the way it structures it offering.

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With the advancement of technology and the ever evolving nature of jobs today, our educational system will need to tailor its syllabi to meet the needs of this advancement.

A greater focus needs to be placed of I.T and children need to be introduced to this at a younger age.

Schools need to move away from the traditional subjects and formulate newer offerings that will equip students to succeed in our current times.

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The South African education system has deteriorated drastically over the last 10 years. This is as a result of government lowering the standard and quality of education as well as lowering pass rates.The result of this can be can be seen at a tertiary level, where pass rates are dismal, as well as at an occupational level where the quality of new entrants into the job market have been lowered, as people are not equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel at their desired jobs -hence the increase in the unemployment rates in our country.

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The South African education system has deteriorated drastically over the last 10 years. This is as a result of government lowering the standard and quality of education as well as lowering pass rates.The result of this can be can be seen at a tertiary level, where pass rates are dismal, as well as at an occupational level where the quality of new entrants into the job market have been lowered, as people are not equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel at their desired jobs -hence the increase in the unemployment rates in our country.

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In South Africa there’s a shortage of trained teachers, which affects the quality of education provided to the students.
Poor quality educators in certain schools have less knowledge on the content they’re teaching as their knowledge falls below that level of the subject being taught.

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The South African education system provides learners with a basic education that helps to alleviate illiteracy nationwide and promote economic growth since more people are able to obtain job opportunities and have a better quality of life. However ,on the contrary, there is a lack of learning material due to lack of funding from government, this may be due to nepotism and corruption, funds are getting lost along the way and teachers don't have enough resources. 

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The South African education system provides learners with a basic education that helps to alleviate illiteracy nationwide and promote economic growth since more people are able to obtain job opportunities and have a better quality of life. However ,on the contrary, there is a lack of learning material due to lack of funding from government, this may be due to nepotism and corruption, funds are getting lost along the way and teachers don't have enough resources. 