ANC plan to split Dept of Education into two

Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 6 Mar, 2009

Spotted on IOL. 

Plans to split the Education Department into two - one focusing on schooling, the other on higher education - are at an advanced stage, African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe has said.

He told members of the Progressive Business Forum in Cape Town that the ANC would finalise the plan in two weeks.

The decision was a response to the crippling skills shortages the country faced, he said.