South Africa: Basic Education: Back to the Drawing Board for Infrastructure Norms and Standards

press release

The Department of Basic Education's draft regulations on minimum uniform norms and standards for schools, published in terms of a court settlement, are wholly inadequate. They do not even begin to address the objective of providing quality education for all.

The Minister has provided a draft that contains no technical information or content that can be used to hold government accountable. It lacks both short- and long-term time frames, instead making continual, vague references to 'progressive realisation'.

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