Opportunity 10: Implementation Experience
‘School Dropout. What’s the Catch?’ Our new publication
While almost every child starts school in South Africa, over 40% won’t ever get to even write matric, let alone pass it. With so much attention paid to the matric pass rate each year, this major failure of our education system has long been hidden from view – despite the fact that an under-educated population […]
Tags: School dropout, Zero Dropout Campaign, Zero school dropout
Posted on 8 Jan 2020
Steps to address South Africa’s dropout crisis
The majority of learners who start Grade 1 will not complete their schooling. The South African education system is failing our children because a lack of educational qualifications puts them at a disadvantage in the labour market, increasing the prospect of a life mired in unemployment, and in so doing, perpetuating cycles of poverty and […]
Tags: drop-out, Educational drop-out, Grade 12, Hands-on Learning, Learning Brief, Opportunity 10, PIRLS, School drop-out, support young people, Supporting young people, Youth, Zero Dropout Schools Initiative
Posted on 12 Jul 2019
Leaving no child behind: The road to Zero School Dropout – Interview Series #3
Today we feature the last of our interviews with our partners working with us in the Zero School Dropout Initiative. In previous weeks we talked to Bottom-Up, Khula Development Group, Community Action Partnership and SAILI. These interviews can be read here and here. We end off the series by talking to Tabisa Bata of Masibumbane Development Organisation and Zeni […]
Tags: School drop-out
Posted on 14 Jun 2018
Leaving no child behind: The road to Zero School Dropout – Interview Series #2
Last month we introduced the Zero School Dropout Initiative and featured the first two of our trailblazers. Today we continue our series by hearing from two more of our partners, Ilze Olivier of Community Action Partnership and Jennie Rist of SAILI. Ilze Olivier – Community Action Partnership What motivates you to work in this space? There is personal […]
Tags: School drop-out
Posted on 7 Jun 2018
Leaving no child behind: The road to Zero School Dropout – Interview Series #1
Last week we introduced the Zero School Dropout Initiative and explored the magnitude of the issue. We continue our series by hearing from two of our six partners. First up is Ashley Visagie of Bottomup and Daleen Labuschagne of the Khula Development Group. Ashley Visagie – Bottomup What motivates you to work in this space? Half our […]
Tags: School drop-out
Posted on 30 May 2018
Leaving no child behind: The road to Zero School Dropout
The matric results represent a proud moment for many schools – an indication of education quality and success, but it is not the full story. The reality is that about half of any cohort of learners have left school without having written the matric exam.[1] Grades 10 and 11 in particular experience high rates of grade […]
Tags: School drop-out
Posted on 15 May 2018
Celebrating amazing teachers: Michael Peter Curry on saving lives
Today we are celebrating the many teachers who go beyond their job description to help their learners reach their fullest potential. We are humbled and inspired by those who are approachable to their learners; who keep working long into their evenings; who make do with limited resources; and who are always open to learning about […]
Tags: Education, International Teacher Day, School drop-out
Posted on 5 Oct 2017
The Work Preparation Programme: Facilitating the college to work transition
With the third highest youth unemployment rate in the world at 24.3%, creative solutions are required to enhance the work readiness and skills of school leavers in our country. Increasingly, across Africa as well as in Europe, technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) – or “the acquisition of knowledge, practical competencies, knowhow and attitudes necessary to […]
Tags: College to work transition, Enterprising School Leavers, FETI
Posted on 11 Sep 2015
The Case for National Senior Certificate Second Chance Programmes: Evidence from DG Murray Trust Partners
Two programmes implemented by our implementing partners, GADRA Matric School (GMS) and the Midlands Community College’s Maths Science and Technology (MST) programme, are successful models which give a second chance to young people who have not performed well enough in their National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations to study the tertiary courses of their choice. We […]
Tags: Connection to Opportunity, Second chances programmes
Posted on 2 Jun 2014
The challenges and lessons learned in securing post-school placements for township-based matrics: Achieving against the odds
Annually the township matriculants participating in the IkamvaYouth programme exceeds all expectations in terms of their matric exam performance and 96% of them have accessed opportunity (educational/employment) within 5 months of matriculating. But the untold story behind these impressive statistics reflects many challenges, frustrations, obstacles and disappointments inherent in trying to secure post-school placements for […]
Tags: Connection to Opportunity, Tutoring
Posted on 7 Oct 2013
