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Education MEC Debbie Schäfer said they had a number of plans for the second term, including 129 mobile classrooms and additional teaching posts.

After feeling the pressure the WCED releases plan for unplaced learners By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - After huge pressure from organisations including the Human Rights Commission, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has finally come up with a plan to place 2 550 learners that are not placed in schools. The plan will see the provision of 29 mobile classrooms to schools, as well as additional teaching posts. By Friday the number of unplaced learners had been reduced to 1 712, the ...

Legal Resources Centre looking for a plan to place Cape learners By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) said it was in a process to request the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) to provide a detailed plan on measures to reduce high numbers of unplaced learners in the province, and to make sure that the placement of those learners does not result in overcrowding. LRC spokesperson Thabo Ramphobole said they were gravely concerned about the increasingly high nu...

Concerns raised over disused Cape school buildings posing a crime risk By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) and the Department of Transport and Public Works (DTPW) have been blamed for leaving disused school buildings to be stripped and vandalised, posing a risk to nearby communities. A recent example was the property on which Uitsig High School was located, which was handed back to the DTPW after the schools closure in 2019. Education MEC Debbie Sch�...

Shock as Education MEC reveals litany of cases against educators By Sisonke Mlamla Share Cape Town - Some 250 teachers, 33 principals, 31 school management team members and 53 education department officials were disciplined last year for anything from theft to fraud, assault, corruption and alcohol abuse. These shocking numbers were revealed in a written reply by Education MEC Debbie Schäfer to a question by ANC education spokesperson Khalid Sayed in the provincial legislation. The figures we...

MEC Debbie Schäfer won’t apologise over ’false claim’ on social media By Okuhle Hlati Share Cape Town – Education MEC Debbie Schäfer has refused to apologise for making false statements on Twitter regarding a student’s acceptance into UCT, with the Good party’s Brett Herron calling her out over race baiting and “conducting herself in bad faith”. Schäfer took to social media at the weekend to lament an apparent rejection of Paul Roos Gymnasium top...

I found the article by Nicky Roberts in In addition to her comments on each of the six metrics per province, she then calculates a poverty factor for each province. In her scoring, using her six metrics and the poverty factor, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KZN are ranked first, second and third respectively.  The Western Cape (WC) is ranked sixth, having been first scored by her at number two, prior to the application of the poverty weighting.  It is very easy to slip into the comparison/competi...

Empumelelweni Primary School started operating on a field adjacent to Old Faure Road, next to Forest Village, Eerste River, on Tuesday, 16 February. About 450 pupils attend the makeshift school. There are no chairs or toilets, and pupils bring chairs from home and use toilets in homes next to the school. Schools in the area have donated textbooks to allow teachers to continue classes. Volunteer teachers from the area teach grades 1 to 11 while parents sit on rocks in the middle of the field or ...

A number of pupils handed over a list of grievances to management regarding allegations of sexual harassment, body shaming and a dictatorial system.

More than 8 600 pupils still unplaced in Western Cape Share Cape Town – Two weeks into the school year, 8 682 pupils are still unplaced in the province. While the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has been slammed for an alleged lack of proper planning for the academic year, they said the number of unplaced pupils was down from 9 949 recorded last year. ANC provincial spokesperson on education Khalid Sayed said the persistent crisis of unplaced learners in the province is one that the ...