Twenty-twenty-four was momentous for the education sector. After seven years of development, the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act has now ushered in the most comprehensive and significant changes to the regulation of the basic education sector since 1996. As the country and the education sector undergoes these policy and political changes, Zero Dropout Campaign […]
Tags: matric, national senior certificate, NSC, BELA, Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, dropout, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education
Posted on 21 January 2025 under Publications.
Recently, the Department of Basic Education (DBE) published its Annual Performance Plan for the next financial year. Of particular interest to the Zero Dropout Campaign in the plan is the implementation and progress of the new General Education Certificate (GEC) pilot. According to the DBE’s plan, “The GEC recognises formal learning that has occurred by […]
Tags: dropout, GEC, DBE, General Education Certificate, NEET, national senior certificate
Posted on 17 April 2024 under Press releases.
There has been debate whether the General Education Certificate (GEC) will, despite its intentions, inadvertently formalise the dropout phenomenon in South Africa, which is still at crisis level.
Tags: dropout, GEC, DBE, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, The Citizen, zdc, NEET, national senior certificate, NSC
Posted on 10 April 2024 under Zero Dropout in the News.