Bekithemba Dube News Today

Our nation's toughest challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality cannot be addressed without dealing with the elephant in the room - the dismal state of our education system, writes Mmusi Maimane.

Matters concerning the South African education system are complex and therefore require solutions that show an awareness of that complexity, writes the University of Pretoria's Yanga Malotana.

Mmusi Maimane’s view on the need to increase the SA pass rate from 30% to 50% has received a mixed response from various stakeholders.

A 30% subject pass rate or overall pass rate is causing damage to pupils writes Bekithemba Dube. He looks at what can be done to reconfigure the system.

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There are limitations in the school curriculum that fail to address social pathologies such as school violence, as evidenced by the death of Lufuno Mavhunga and many others, writes Bekithemba Dube.

Kayleen Morgan The issue of examination leaks should not be treated lightly, as it has a serious bearing on the credibility of the examination system, and teachers and unions should think beyond themselves and sacrifice educational integrity based on personal differences with the Education Minister, writes  Bekithemba Dube. Examination leaks are common throughout the world, with seemingly no tangible strategies to address this challenge. The challenge has attracted various conflicting discours...