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The Un-masking of South Africa’s Education System
17 Feb 2021
This
Mail & Guardian webinar was sponsored by Amnesty International South Africa. It featured as speakers Iain Byrne, Researcher and Advisor, Amnesty International; Professor Ann Skelton, Advocate at the Centre for Child Law and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child; Amanda Edwards, Education Researcher and Performance Analyst for the Public School Partnerships Programme; and Shenilla Mohamed, Executive Director of Amnesty International South Africa.
The flaws in South Africa’s education system are systemic and profound and have been well documented by organisations such as Amnesty International for years. But the gap between schools with access to computers and the internet and those without has widened since the Covid-19 pandemic took hold. Millions of children are at risk of dropping out of the system altogether. This may be the time to address the gaps in the education system, find out what has worked since the pandemic began, and apply the lessons learned.

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