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@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 ...

25 January 2018 - On average, pupils in independent schools in South Africa achieve much better National Senior Certificate results (sometimes loosely known as ...

Achievement and Enterprise in School Education

29 May 2018 - On average, pupils in independent schools in South Africa achieve much better National Senior Certificate results (sometimes loosely known as ...

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 ...

In our politically correct era, we hang on the words and actions of young people with too much knowledge and too little wisdom. The consequence is a society ...

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.

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 ...

FreeFACTS - January 2020

This edition of FreeFACTS looks at the recent matric results as well as historical trends. It raises issues of quality and what the implications are for South ...

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 - March 2019

This edition of Free Facts looks at the progress made by South Africa since 1994 and looks at a wide variety of indicators. It argues that although this ...