More than 700 Eastern Cape schools closed, more to follow Restructuring process will reduce inefficiencies, department says GUGU PHANDLE > By GUGU PHANDLE - 24 May 2021 - 07:00 The Eastern Cape department of education has closed more than 700 schools and almost 400 more face closure due to the department’s restructuring and rationalisation process.
Figures seen by Sowetan s sister paper the Dispatch show that 776 schools have closed, while 394 are pending closure.
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The Eastern Cape department of education has closed more than 700 schools and almost 400 more face closure due to the department’s restructuring and rationalisation process. Figures seen by DispatchLIVE (http://www.dispatchlive.co.za) show that 776 schools have closed, while 394 are pending closure.
Thousands of textbooks not delivered to EC schools PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 05 February 2021
In a year in which it racked up R1.2bn in unauthorised expenditure, the Eastern Cape education department has failed to deliver textbooks to thousands of its schoolchildren. ..
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Education department mum on ‘glaring’ failures to provide safe start to 2021 academic year Lack of state Covid-19 resources will speed pandemic and eat into attendance and admissions 12 January 2021 - 11:08 By Gugu Phandle Many parents are reluctant to send their children to school during the pandemic. Image: FILE/ Sandile Ndlovu
Education unions and experts have warned that a lack of state-funded Covid-19 resources at schools will both exacerbate the pandemic and cause 2021 attendance and admissions to drop.
Mongameli Peter, who chairs the Eastern Cape chapter of the National Association of School Governing Bodies (NASGB), warned there was general anxiety and reluctance “to release children to go back to school”.