This research reports on the factors contributing to dropout among grades 10 and 11 learners in public ordinary schools.

This paper reports on the perceptions and experiences of primary school teachers of the challenges thet faced and the prospects of using data from Annual National Assessments (ANAs). While the majority stated that information from the ANAs can assist teachers to improve learning, responses on the use of the ANAs in the classroom were mixed, with most reporting that teachers did not know how to use the ANA results to improve learning, and that no plans were in place at their schools for the use of ANA data. A significant proportion also indicated that they received little or no support from the school district on how to use ANA results. These findings were consistent across the school quintiles as well as the foundation and intermediate phases. Given the potential value of the ANAs, the paper highlights two initiatives aimed at enhancing the meaningful use of ANA results to improve learning and teaching in schools.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the incidence of learner absenteeism in the country, the reasons why learners absent themselves from schools and examine the sytem that exists to monitor and reduce learner absenteeism.This work was completed as part of the President's Education Initiative.

This document discusses trends in the relative under-performance of males in the schooling system. Both male and female performance is much lower than it should be in the South African schooling system, but males perform particularly poorly in standardised tests. The findings of this analysis are summarised in the report.

Traditionally, the independent school sector in South Africa has been perceived to be “white, affluent and exclusive”. An associated perception is that independent schools offer a higher quality of schooling than public schools. This report interrogates these perceptions and shows them to be either incorrect or too simplistic. It presents findings from an analysis of the Education Management Information System (EMIS) and Senior Certificate (Grade 12) examinations data relating largely to the ability of independent schools to offer quality schooling for the historically disadvantaged.