Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament; Ilifa Labantwana is hosting a virtual conversation about public funding for early childhood development; and the 8th African Women Writers’ Symposium is kicking off with the Nadine Gordimer in Me.
A seven-month inquiry into data discrepancies at one school in a low-resourced community reveals how pupils are falling through the cracks of our schooling system. Rahima Essop, Amanda Edwards, Sias Bolton and Manoj Chiba examine what can be done to stop it.
Rahima Essop and Merle Mansfield explore the knowns and unknowns in dropout debates, describing what is missing from the statistics that keep popping up in our news feeds — and why we should all care about it.
To address alarmingly high school dropout rates in SA, education experts explored the strategies that can be employed to protect learners’ right to education at a panel discussion at the Constitution Hill Human Rights Festival on Saturday, 19 March.