A recent national household survey on Access to education undertaken by Social Surveys Africa and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Cals) suggests that 10 % of pupils across all grades are three or more years outside the age-grade norm. Only 4% of children aged seven to 18 are not in school though.
This raises a question: if 96 % of our children are in school, why are our matric completion rates so dismal? The survey showed that one of the reasons we have such high attendance rates for the ages seven to 18 is that learners take a long time to get through the schooling system. Just because you are in school at the age of 18 does not mean you are in grade 12.
To read more go to Sarah Meny-Gibert’ analysis in the Mail & Guardian by Clicking Here!
To access the report of the Survey Click Here!
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