GAUTENG.- The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng is proposing that the Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi opens online admissions for Grade 1 and Grade 8 for the 2023 academic year now in April to ensure that no learner misses a day of schooling next year.
The party said that it is also proposing that the school placements must be concluded before September this year. Moving the online admission earlier will ensure that school placements will be done timeously before the new academic year begins adding that this will also ensure that schools with high enrolment demand are identified and are allocated more resources such as classrooms, teachers, and furniture before the new 2023 academic year begins.
“Based on previous experience, delays in opening the online admission process have had a huge impact on the future of children, where thousands of learners across the province have missed months of schooling due to late placements.”
The DA’s Gauteng Shadow MEC for Education, Khume Ramulifho said that this will also avoid last minute interventions where resources are allocated at the beginning of the new academic year when schooling has resumed, and learners miss out on valuable teaching and learning time.
“The DA believes that there should be no child of school-going age who stays at home because the department has not yet allocated them to a school.”
