Basic Education Sector News Today

Justification for the cut of the FPE and FDSE is that primary school education has been reduced to two classes.

The Africa Development Bank (AfDB) has assured Gombe State Government of its strong commitment to support the state's development drive

56.4% of total number of candidates who wrote the exams were girls, says minister

With South Africa’s education sector having been accused of being broken, parents and pupils need to be prepared and brace for the trends most likely to have an impact on education in the year ahead, writes Paul Esterhuizen.

The recovery plan will be addressed at the annual 2023 Basic Education Sector gathering, where government is expected to discuss learner drop-out and educational losses caused by the pandemic.

Showing resilience in the face of rolling blackouts, vandalism of school infrastructure and sporadic service delivery protests, the 2022 Eastern Cape matrics proved their mettle with a 4.2 percentage point increase in the pass rate.

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the matric results for the year 2022. Motshekga lauded the class of 2022 for producing a 80.1% pass rate despite challenges with the pandemic and load shedding.

Download logoBidding farewell to the youth that were placed in schools for the presidential youth employment initiative in the basic education sector.

An employee from the Department of Basic Education had to be hospitalised after protesters stormed its offices in Tshwane.

At the 7th Basic Education Sector lekgotla this week, Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, an education researcher in the department, presented results of a study on the loss of learning during the pandemic.