Cde. Dominic, can u pls e-mail me those policies I requested On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Progressive, worse to that question papers are written in English and > Africans and other variuos goverment forms. > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > ------------------------------ > *From: *Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]> > *Sender: *[email protected] > *Date: *Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:36:46 +0200 > *To: *<[email protected]> > *ReplyTo: *[email protected] > *Subject: *[YCLSA Discussion] Mind your language - shake-up at > universities > > > [image: News24] > > > *Mind your language - shake-up at universities * > > > *Sapa, News24, Johannesburg, 5 April 2011* > > Pretoria - Every university student in South Africa could be required to > learn one African language as a condition for graduating, Minister of Higher > Education and Training Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. > > An advisory panel had been tasked with looking into the issue, Nzimande > said in Pretoria at the launch of the teacher education and development plan > for the next 15 years. > > "One of the things we are looking into is... to what extent should we > consider that every university student in South Africa must at least learn > one African language as a condition for graduating," he said. > > This was "very, very critical". > > Speaking in isiZulu, Nzimande said: "Akukwazi ukuba yithi kuphela ekuthiwa > sifunde isingisi nesibhunu bakwethu, kodwa ezethu iyilimi nabanye > bangazifundi [We can't be expected to learn English and Afrikaans, yet they > don't learn our languages]". > > He said the issue of the development and teaching of African languages in > universities was something he was taking up as a special ministerial > project. > > The advisory panel would look at how to strengthen university teaching and > expansion of African languages, which was in a serious decline. > > The launch of the strategic planning framework for teachers aims to improve > the quality of teachers and teaching in the country in line with calls over > the years by teacher unions. > > The plan identifies the availability of qualified and capable African > language foundation phase teachers as particularly problematic. > > Nzimande said this had "severe implications" for the development of early > numeracy and literacy, which was the foundation for all future learning. > > "African language learners in the poor, rural context are mostly severely > impacted," he said. > > A European Union-supported programme to strengthen foundation teacher > education was already being implemented by the higher and basic education > departments. > > It would increase the number of universities involved in foundation phase > teacher education from 18 in 2008 to 20 by 2014, said Nzimande. > > - SAPA > > *From: > http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Mind-your-language-shake-up-at-universities-20110405 > * > * * > * * > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > > -- > You are subscribed. This footer can help you. > Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to > this message. > You can visit the group WEB SITE at > http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery > options, pages, files and membership. > To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected]. > You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to > put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to > this address (repeat): [email protected] . > -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
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