The Education Illusion
The latest report from the Centre For Risk Analysis (CRA), entitled The Education Illusion looks at South Africa’s broader education system and provides an assessment of quality and output over time.
Key takeaways:
- Basic education expenditure accounts for 70% of all education spending.
- Only half of grade 1s make it to grade 12 in the minimum time.
- Only a third of schools have a computer facility, merely a quarter have a library, and just a fifth have a laboratory.
- Pupils in Quintile 1 schools (the poorest) are six times more likely to fail maths than those in Quintile 5 (the most well-off).
- University enrolment increased by 88.7% between 1995 and 2018.
- Rates of completion are lowest for doctoral qualifications, at 13.5%.
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