Matric results require careful scrutiny

Submitted by adminGF on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 19:24
Equal Education
First Press Release on 2011 matric results
4 January 2012

Equal Education congratulates the approximately 348,257 learners who passed the 2011 matric examinations. We also congratulate the Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga, the Department of Basic Education, the MECs and provincial departments, and Umalusi on the smooth running of the 2011 examination and standardisation process.

While the improvement in the matric pass rate to 70.2% is being celebrated, we advise caution.  The overall pass rate is a red herring.

VICTORY FOR THE RIGHTS TO BASIC EDUCATION AND EQUALITY IN THE ‘RIVONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL CASE’

Submitted by adminGF on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 05:54
Eq­­­ual Education Statement
For immediate release
8 December 2011

JUDGEMENT OF THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT CONFIRMS THAT THE PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION HAS THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE THE CAPACITY OF A SCHOOL

Judgement was handed down yesterday in the case between Rivonia Primary School and the MEC and Head of Department of the Gauteng Department of Education.

Open Letter: the Global Fund and South Africa's National Department of Health Must Take Action to Address Treatment Action Campaign's Funding Crisis

Submitted by adminGF on Fri, 12/09/2011 - 01:01
Equal Education Statement
For immediate release
8 December 2011
 
We, the undersigned are civil society groups from around the world committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS and related social justice movements. We have learned that the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will face imminent closure in January 2012 unless it receives R6.5 million in payment owed by the National Department of Health, as part a five year grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) to South Africa.

STRENGHTENING THE LEGAL ARM OF EQUAL EDUCATION

Submitted by adminGF on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 22:52

By Janice Bleazard

In January next year, the doors of the Equal Education Law Centre will open in Cape Town’s city centre.  The Equal Education Law Centre – or ‘the EELC’ for short – will have a team of lawyers who will work hand-in-hand with Equal Education to protect and advance the right to education in South Africa.  These lawyers will help Equal Education to stop unlawful activities at schools – for example, discrimination against learners, corporal punishment, expulsion without prior disciplinary proceedings; closure of schools without proper procedure; failure by government to provide textbooks and other basic resources, and so on. They will also support EE’s campaign work, such as the Minimum Norms & Standards for School Infrastructure Campaign, and may launch big cases of their own to promote quality and equal education through the law.

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