Media statement: Education review reflects serious challenges amidst limited progress
10 June 2019
As the Department of Basic Education reflects on the progress of the education sector in the last 25 years, education stakeholders must not lose sight of the on-going challenges yet to be overcome
In Pretoria today, the Department of Basic Education (“DBE”) presented some of the preliminary findings of its “25 Year Review” of the basic education sector at a consultative workshop for civil society and education stakeholders.
While noting the various achievements of the last 25 years, the DBE also took stock of the critical challenges which continue to compromise consistent and adequate progress in the sector.
For instance, whilst reporting on the various improvements made in school infrastructure and sanitation, the DBE acknowledged, amongst other things, the need to strengthen the implementation of the Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure (“Infrastructure Norms and Standards”), in response to the judgment handed down by the Bhisho High Court in 2018, and to make provincial implementation plans public.