Education is a mess - according to SAIRR Report

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 9 Apr, 2008

Education, at school and university level is in a mess. An alarming report has revealed that most of South Africa's public schools are dysfunctional and the education system is failing to produce the skills required for job creation and poverty reduction, IOL reports here and here

Presenting the latest country report in Cape Town last week, SA Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) chief executive John Kane-Berman claimed that up to 80 percent of the country's public schools are dysfunctional despite a decade of incremental increases in public spending on the education system.