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'Education recovery going OK'
29/08/2007 21:06 - (SA)
Pretoria - Heads of education have expressed their "full confidence" in the implementation of the national recovery plan, the Education Department said on Wednesday.
The plan was instituted following the teacher stay-away during the public service strike in June this year.
It has been criticised by the Congress of SA Students (Cosas) whose members protested and boycotted schools, demanding an extra 20% be added to their end-of-year marks to compensate for missed schooling.
But the Education Departments in the provinces said teachers had been participating fully in the catch-up programmes and that pupils had been benefiting from these.
"It is clear that learners have been presented with renewed opportunities following the missed lessons of June. Those who grasp these opportunities will be the ones who succeed," the Director General of the Department of Education Duncan Hindle said.
The department said additional learning and teaching materials, including newspaper supplements, were being well used by teachers, parents and pupils.
It said school calendar and exam timetables would remain unchanged and that no concessions would be made which could diminish the value and integrity of the matric examinations.
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