Demand exceeds available spaces in almost 600 Gauteng schools
The picture that has emerged on the last day for Gauteng online school applications shows that there are 596 schools where demand exceeds available spaces while 359 schools have less than 50 applications for grades 1 and 8.Parents who want their children to attend grades 1 and 8 at public schools in the province in 2019 have until midnight to submit their online applications.The department said it had received 535‚064 applications since it opened its online application system on April 16. Of the applications‚ 251‚808 were for grade 1 and 283‚256 for grade 8.It said some of those 596 schools recorded between 1‚538 and 1‚960 applications for either grade 1 or grade 8.Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi told Power FM that the online registration process had given the department information that allowed it to plan appropriately and correctly."It makes things easy for us. We now know where there is a need to build new schools‚ we now know where there is a need to change teaching languag...
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