Elections 2024: Pass or fail? What you need to know about parties' education promises
Political parties are all promising education reform, but will any of their campaign rhetoric translate into real change?
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Political parties are all promising education reform, but will any of their campaign rhetoric translate into real change?
Dr Corrin Varady, CEO at Idea, says STEM skills essential for turning Sona rhetoric into reality...
It was reported that the skills gap is also hampering South Africa's competitiveness in the global mining market.
Pushing students through school with inadequate results and without feedback creates a false sense of achievement.
The information and communication technologies (ICT), finance, and real estate sectors, while not the largest industries in South Africa, are still heavyweights in their own right. In 2021, the country’s ICT sector recorded R243.6bn in revenue, while finance, real estate, and business services sectors contributed an estimated R1.09tn to the country’s GDP in 2022.