Our Programme Director, Merle Mansfield, sat down with YFM to unpack the findings of our latest publication, School Dropout: Advocacy to Action. The survey highlights how dropout is not an isolated incident but is deeply influenced by community and household factors. Listen to the full interview.
Tags: Merle Mansfield, Stephen Grootes, GEC, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, zdc, basic education, SAfm
Posted on 4 February 2025 under Zero Dropout in the News.
Our campaign director, Merle Mansfield, breaks down throughput rates and what this means in correlation to the latest matric results with TT on Power FM on 16 January 2025. Listen to the full interview as we dive into this important metric.
Tags: SAfm, Merle Mansfield, Stephen Grootes, GEC, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, zdc, basic education
Posted on 4 February 2025 under Zero Dropout in the News.
The results are in! Our Communications Lead breaks down the latest matric results, highlighting a small improvement in the throughput rate. But what does this really mean? And why is it important? Listen to him unpack this with Benito Vergotine from Smile FM on 13 January 2025.
Tags: SAfm, Merle Mansfield, Stephen Grootes, GEC, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, zdc, basic education
Posted on 4 February 2025 under Zero Dropout in the News.
On this thought-provoking instalment of The Talking Point with Cathy Mohlahlana, Merle Mansfield, Programme Director of the Zero Dropout Campaign, discusses the teenage pregnancy crisis in South Africa and its contribution to school dropout. More than 4,000 girls between 10 and 19 years old have given birth in the Eastern Cape since the beginning of […]
Tags: basic education, SAfm, Merle Mansfield, Stephen Grootes, GEC, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, zdc
Posted on 13 August 2024 under Zero Dropout in the News.
In this SAfm interview with Stephen Grootes, Merle Mansfield, Programme Director of the Zero Dropout Campaign, discusses the protentional implications of the Department of Basic Education’s new General Education Certificate for Grade 9 currently being piloted in schools across South Africa. The General Education Certificate is scheduled for national implementation in 2025, and if so, […]
Tags: zdc, basic education, SAfm, Merle Mansfield, Stephen Grootes, GEC, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric
Posted on 16 April 2024 under Zero Dropout in the News.
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: national senior certificate, NSC, dropout, GEC, DBE, General Education Certificate, Department of Basic Education, matric, The Citizen, zdc, NEET
Posted on 10 April 2024 under Zero Dropout in the News.
At the annual Basic Education Sector Lekgotla held recently, President Cyril Ramaphosa raised his concerns about South Africa’s learner dropout rate, which he said was “still unacceptably high”…
Tags: BELA Bill, Basic Education Laws Amendment, National Assembly, dropout, Legislation, DBE, Early Warning Toolkit, Department of Basic Education, matric, zdc, Cyril Ramaphosa, President Ramaphosa, basic education
Posted on 26 March 2024 under Press releases.