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Hi, Re: Education. Everybody has been missing the obvious. Nutrition! School feeding schemes in rural areas Menu 1 is 8% nutritional value per portion per child per day. Menu 2 is 2% nutritional value per portion per child per day. That’s why children cant concentrate and perform. The one lady complained about the plates. Why did’nt she complain, what is on the plate? We rely to much on gov. Ask Duncan Hindle why did he appoint an unqualified person in the National Dep Educ as head of Nutrition? Children needs to get quality food with the right amunts micro and macro nutrients and others for brain development. Cognitive dev is build by nutrition. Not filling up stomachs with poor quality mealie meal. More to that. You should have Basil Kransdorff e’Pap Technologies and Filicity Lawrence UK journalist Ceo Tiger Foods on your panel. Search http://www.changemakers.com and see what needs to be done. And then you will realises how far we are behind. The tv ads with coke and margarine, white bread sandwiches, processed cheese and polony before and in between The Big Debate says it all! I would like to mail imp. info to you for your attention. Thanks Cathy Cameron ex teacher ex lecturer Soweto Teachers Trainging College, Kathorus Training College and taught 11 years at Frances Vorwerg School for cerebral palsy children.
ANN RYAN ” The most obvious is that what we choose not to see”
Basil Kransdorff tel nr 0828043818
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To improve the future of the South Africann People, the Ruling Party and the Government has to reform the current education system into a High-Quality-Education-System that enables the pupils to collect basic knowledge according the standards of Leading Nations.
This HQ-Basic-Education should start in public HQ-Pre-Schools, HQ-Primery and HQ-Secondary-Schools. The HQ-Primery, the HQ-Secondary-Schools should be Whole-Day-Schools, monitoring
the “Homework” and reflecting in the afternoon what has been taught in the morning.
The pupils who are ambitous and intelligent enough to attend, after finishing the Primery School, the HQ-High School should have the possibility to get free access to these education levels at least for those ones who do not have regular or only low income.
Very clear that the all the teachers has to go through HQ-Leadersip-Training on the Universities and that are paid according their demanding
responisibilities. Self-evident too should be that the performance of the HQ-Schools and have to be monitored by a team of qualified Experts, who has to report to higher levels of the Education Department.
the pupils who prefer to finish the secondary school must have access to HQ-Technicons preparing the youth to do specialized work and earning an income. Also the performance of technicons and universities should be monitored by well-trained HQ-Government-Experts.
That the schools itself must be renovated and properly equipped with technical teaching equipment is a must as well. The Whole- Day schools has to provide daily a decent lunch for teachers and pupils.
The current system of public schools without a proper Pre-School-System
does release too many pupils with unsufficient basic knowledge.
But to do qualified and demanding work one has to collect more basic knowledge. Too many pupils are, for instance, not abel to learn at home as there is not enough space and no real support at home to allow concentrated and successful learning.
But we can not to see the HQ-Education isolated.
Therefore the Government AND the Private Sector is forced by the huge imbalance
in the figures of those ones who pay taxes and those ones who do not make any contribution to public funds, to set up nation-wide, new companies and cooperatives to produce food, food and again food for the domestic and for export markets. That must be done in a very advanced and efficient way to keep the food prices low and internationally seen, competitve. First food and then the public/private partnerships have to initiate the production of quality commodities instead of importing all the goods. Even our pasta and jam is imported!
The precondition for a positive change is, however, that South Africa is governed and managed
by competent leaders with moral, ethic and long-term visions in favour of the ordinary people.
If the ruling party is not able or not willing to provide this kind of leadership all the good will and the debates will end without tangible results!
Yes Education is in the right hands,but the curiculum should address the needs of the industry.it should equip both students and learners with relevant skils whch will advance the economy of the country and help people to alleviate poverty and encourages people to become entrepreneurs.The department should train educators with new curriculum because these are the people who must implement.if there is deficiency in knowledge content,that is deemed to failure.
“Boardroom or biology lab or on the streets” – Why this dichotomy? A functoning society needs people at all levels and creating the idea that if you do not achieve the top levels of a stratified socio-economic system you are a failure only serves to widen the gap between extreme poverty and obscene wealth. So rather than aiming at becoming a well-balanced and self-sustaining human being within a community we are holding out a carrot (which may well turn out to be poisoned) that the only way out of poverty is to become a businessman or an engineer or a scientist. But it turns out South Africa has to import welders! You often cannot find a plumber for love or money. Furthermore – stress on the “needs of industry” as mentioned by the previous poster is seriously missing the point – we should look at the needs of people, then the needs of communities. We need to put the horse where it belongs, in front of the cart. Industries should exist to serve the needs of people, our children are not widgets on a production line. The mess that is fraudulently offered up as “education”, in this country as well as the countries we aspire to emulate, will only be remedied when politicians and businessmen relinquish their own agendas and start to ask the right questions. The first of those should be “What do the children need?”