sábado, 18 de abril de 2015

South Africa's Education. Can we talk about inclusion?

The education system in South Africa  it’s administered by the provinces, and The National Departament of Education limits to demarcate the general educational policy, setting limits or ‘’Standards’’ that the public, the subsidized, and the private entities should achieved. As well as the higher education as Universities.

Sudafrica’s education;  the free, the quality and access to everyone for it, as the same way that in our country,  has been a very touched topic, although it has been more than 20 years since Nelson Mandela became the President in 1994 there are many shortcomings in the reforms that the government  made, even if the inclusión it’s one of the pillars of them –inclusion as an anti-racial segregation proyect, not as we see in our context- .

Since the abolition of the apartheid that secreted the population in White, Indian/Asian and black people, the last one group with fewer privileges , still a long way to go because we can still see differences between these groups, as the academic levels of the people that integrate it. The government assigned 20% of the fiscal Budget for Education Issues, but it’s not enough, the ‘’free’’ education it’s just until 9° grade –of 12°- thenceforward the family has to contribute with money to the education of the kids. Being the native families and indeed the poorest the hardest hit.

 So, here a question that arises me, What happen with the families that can’t pay for it? What happen with the education of these kids? Does have them  to start a worker life at 14-15 years old?  Is it a real ‘’Inclusive’’ education?


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