will be even better if it can start at pre-school and please hounarable minister just dont expect our children to learn maths and science in our languages
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:07 AM, mercy matamela <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. 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