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3 January 2021

In 2020, the education landscape changed permanently. Covid-19 pushed schools, teachers, learners and parents into unfamiliar territory, and many had to adapt to teaching and learning methods […]

South Africa’s education system is split into three levels: elementary, secondary and tertiary.  Prior to 2009, the National Department of Education was responsible for higher education as well as elementary and […]

Elementary Schooling: The Basics
Elementary education in South Africa lasts seven years, and requires the completion of grades R (or reception year, which is equivalent to kindergarten) through grade 6. This phase […]

South Africa employs a National Qualifications Framework (NQF), which defines benchmark requirements and goals for all levels of the education system.  Initiated in 1995, the framework originally included eight le […]

As at upper secondary level, post-secondary education in South Africa includes both an academically oriented university track and a vocationally oriented technical track.
Technical Education
Given high youth […]

Quality assurance in South African higher education involves institutional oversight and program-based accreditation under the auspices of the Council on Higher Education (CHE) and the South African Qualifications […]

Bachelor’s Degrees
Students who obtain a “bachelor’s pass” on the National Senior Certificate examination have the right to be admitted to university, but some institutions have additional admission tests or othe […]

South Africa is currently experiencing a shortage of teachers. According to one study, the country is in need of as many as 30,000 additional teachers by 2025. The government has invested heavily in teacher […]

Secondary Education
WES requires that all external examination results for the National Senior Certificate (or its predecessor, the Senior Certificate) be sent directly to WES by Umalusi (the South African C […]

The South African education system, characterised by crumbling infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms and relatively poor educational outcomes, is perpetuating inequality and as a result failing too many of its […]