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The IRR's Blueprint for Growth 6: Generating Jobs and Skills for Prosperity and Growth

The IRR’s latest paper in the Blueprint for Growth series can help the GNU achieve its goals of economic growth and job creation. Rapid economic growth is the ...

Overcoming the odds: Why school vouchers would benefit poor South Africans

In this report, IRR Researcher Caiden Lang calls for a radical change in how basic education functions and makes the case for a school voucher system as a ...

FreeFACTS - April 2023

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at education and notes that since 1994 there is a decidedly mixed picture of the successes in this sector.

Freeing Education - The future of the Class of 2020: How to build a bright education future

22 January 2020 – This report offers practical and easily implementable policy solutions to the failures in the South African education system.

The South African Education Crisis: Giving Power Back To Parents

31 May 2018 - South African education is in crisis. Children attending South African schools fare poorly on almost every metric, and are ill-prepared for the ...

Thrown Under The School Bus - The future of the Class of 2020: Gauteng as bellwether on education

14 January 2020 – This report examines grave deficiencies in education in Gauteng – and the implications for schooling nationally – and suggests how these can ...

Research and Policy Brief: 'Loyale Verset?' The N.P. Van Wyk Louw Memorial Lecture by Professor Jonathan Jansen - 25th October 2010

Professor Jonathan Jansen, vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State and president of the South African Institute of Race Relations, ...

New data to be published by the South African Institute of Race Relations shows that the transformation of higher education in South Africa over the past 20 ...

15 June 2022 – In this submission to the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill, the Institute of Race Relations ...

@Liberty - Give all pupils school vouchers worth R12 000 each!

9 September 2014 - South Africa should introduce a comprehensive system of educational vouchers to level the educational playing field, says the IRR (Institute ...