Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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Recording of Education in Post-Apartheid Education

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There exist many parallels between the growth of educational activities in Post-Apartheid South Africa and America after the era of Reconstruction. Administrations have begun attempts to expand the access to education across the nation to many marginalized groups.

The Importance of Education to Freedom and Equality via University of Oxford Press

Listen to an analysis of issues regarding the poor education in South Africa via this podcast from Canon Collins Trust by Dumisani Hompashe.

In the podcast they discuss:

The effects of poverty and unemployment on the quality of education
Ineffective policy created for curriculum and educators not meeting national standards
The South African government allocates a large part of the budget to education, but resources are misused
Hompashe's hope for progress in South Africa's education system

Sources

Farrel, Denis. "Children sing a song as they attend assembly on their first day back at school at the start of the new academic year in Johannesburg, South Africa." Associated Press, https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/south-africa-teaching-time-66-percent/.

"Education in Africa," UNESCO, http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/education-africa.

Fiske, Edward B. and Ladd, Helen F. "Elusive Equality: Education Reform in South Africa," 2004, Brookings. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/butler/reader.action?docID=273543#.

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