TEACHING STANDARDS
Education body not fulfilling mandate, says report
The South African Council for Education (SACE) is a stumbling block to the improvement of basic education, according to a report by the Centre for Development and Enterprise. The report included the lack of teacher accountability, along with bureaucratic unions and a lack of political will among the causes of poor quality education in the country. Regulated by the South African Council for Educators Act of 2000, the body is legislated to register teachers, develop education and training, review a code of professional ethics for registered teachers and oversee disciplinary measures as necessary. The report said it was necessary to develop standards for the practice of teaching that supported learning gains. Chairman of the National Education Collaboration Trust Sizwe Nxasana said there had been a debate since 2014 about the need to reform the SACE. "If the body functions as it should, we should, as a country, start to see the benefit of the professional standards that should be set f...
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