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More to education advances than matric pass rate | FreeFACTS January 2025

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the matric pass rate and while noting that it has shown significant improvement over the past few years, if one digs deeper ...

The IRR's Blueprint for Growth: 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 ...

Education: Empower Excellence, Beat Back Poverty

'#WhatSACanBe: 100 days to get SA back on track' is a series of nine short papers each focusing on a key policy area. Taken together, these papers offer a ...

Submission to the Select Committee on Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture, in the National Council of Provinces, regarding the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill of 2022 [B2B -2022]

31 January 2024 - In this submission to the Select Committee on Education and Technology, Sports, Arts and Culture, in the National Council of Provinces, the ...

FreeFACTS - May 2023

The early 21st century has been characterised by a revolution in how easy it is to access data and information, thanks to the rise of the internet and devices ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

FreeFACTS - January 2022

18 February 2022 - This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the latest matric results. As has become the norm with the school-leaving examinations there is a mixed ...

FreeFACTS - February 2021

9 March 2021 - This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the matric results for 2020 as well as a number of historical trends. Flagged are the very small number of ...