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Education department admits they failed schools LIZEKA TANDWA
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HE Eastern Cape Department of Education admitted that they have failed schools of the Nelson Mandela Bay during their underperforming schools intervention two-day meeting with principals yesterday at Algoa College.
This comes weeks before the schools examinations are scheduled to begin in the NMB. Chief Director for Curricula management, Mzimhle Mabona, admitted the department’s failure to intervene at underperforming schools in time saying they had now acknowledged their problems and decided to ask principals to develop school
plans and academic plans. Mabona was speaking at the underperforming schools intervention meeting with MEC Mandla Makupula and over 50 local principals from underperformance schools attended. Mabona said the schools’ development left a sour taste in their mouths but they intended to change this before the year
ended. Mabona said they identified three failures which undermine teaching and learning which were poor time management, insufficient attention to textbooks and very low levels of teacher-subject knowledge. Continued on page 2
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