There are roughly 553,000 teachers in South Africa. 19% of them have no tertiary education (AMPS2009B)
This week’s theme: Public servants
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Worrying and alarming fact but not surprising. By tradition the teaching profession to many comes as a default career when all else fail. To change this culture means re-visiting the prime and elementary question. What is the purpose of education?
So what, 50% of our politicians, appear not to have had a secondary education!
And that makes it ok? If thats the case then S.A has got a loooooong way to go to reach the ideal economy, let alone education level!