Uncertain Future For Teachers

Tshukudu and Rari at BOFEPUSU press briefing.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE
Tshukudu and Rari at BOFEPUSU press briefing.PIC: KAGISO ONKATSWITSE

Teachers of various pilot project subjects in secondary schools such as French, music, physical education and moral education face a bleak future with no progression path and one subject being phased out completely.

Already BOSETU is fighting in court to have moral education reinstated in senior secondary schools to save the teachers jobs, since the subject was discontinued without consultation with the teachers union. In fact it is not clear who, in government or the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), sanctioned the discontinuation of the subject in senior secondary schools.

Interestingly though, the subject continues to be offered at junior secondary school level as a core subject, meaning it is mandatory to all junior secondary school pupils.

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