In the late 1990s the South African Department of Education implemented two policies that were meant to reduce the …

For many children around the world, access to higher education and the labour market depends on becoming fluent in a … second language. This presents a challenge to education policy: when and how in the school programme should a transition to …

Both South Africa’s labour market and education system were directly influenced by the separate development policies of …. The young (who are still in education) and the most educated (in the whole population) also tend to answer the test more …

between races. There is a now a growing body of evidence which suggests that the quality of education received by South … cognitive skills. This paper reviews the international and South African literature which considers the role of education … quality in improving labour market prospects. Education quality is considered from both from an input and output perspective …

The poor state of quality education in South Africa is confirmed by the weak performance of South African students on … international tests, even when compared to countries with comparatively poorer education systems. This paper aims to shed light on … this issue through the use of the PIRLS 2006 dataset and education production function techniques. A unique feature of this …

the South African economics of education literature. The strong legacy of apartheid and the consequent correlation between … education and wealth have meant that, generally speaking, poorer students perform worse academically. The present study uses the …, preschool education, and the availability of reading textbooks. In contrast, teacher-subject knowledge was found to have only a …

school system, the ongoing low quality of education acts as a poverty trap by precluding them from achieving the level of … quality of education is attributable to poverty itself as opposed to other features of teaching and management that …

Africa are high on the country’s development agenda. Much hope is often vested in education as an opportunity for children … conceived of in terms of the human capital model, according to which education improves an individual’s productivity, which in …-economic status (SES) and education, in that it is well known that a student’s SES has an important influence their educational …