THE Department of Basic Education is holding a lekgotla this week to discuss how the country’s schooling sector will recover after two years of pandemic-related disruptions.
In her opening address on Wednesday, Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga said the sector lost at least 50% of curriculum time due to rotational timetabling and intermittent closures.
“As a government, we are mulling over options to mitigate against losing contact teaching time in 2022 and beyond,” she said.
“We have recommended to the National Coronavirus Command Council to reduce the social distancing measures in our classrooms. The ideal is to have all our learners receiving contact teaching time at the same time to mitigate against dropouts, increase retention rates and prevent failures.”
While many schools returned to full-time teaching in 2021, smaller schools and those with a high number of pupils have had to retain a shift system due to ongoing concerns around
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