Citizen3.png Teachers won't be administrating ANA - unions Valeska Abreu, The Citizen, Johannesburg, 21 September 2015 Several teacher unions have this morning announced they will not be administrating the Annual National Assessments (ANA) this year. Minister of basic education Angie Motshekga announced last week that the ANA would commence in December this year. This morning the South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa (NEPTOSA), National Teachers Union (NATU), Professional Educators Union (PEU) and the SA Onderwysunie (SAOU) said the ANA in its current form, was not in the best interest of learners or the provision of equality education. SADTU general secretary Mugwena Maluleka said the union received the announcement by the minister with shock and through the media. "This announcement was despite an earlier commitment by the DBE and the unions that a task team consisting of all unions and senior DBE officials would establish a remodeled systemic and diagnostic tool instead of the ANA in its current form." The task team will have 90 days to remodel the current ANA. Maluleka said this was agreed with the DBE but the union distanced itself from the decision that the ANA would be administrated in February 2016. The unions denied it had accepted that the ANA would take place in December and that they agreed to a 90-day postponement of the ANA in an earlier meeting of teacher unions and senior DBE officials. "This is a gross misrepresentation of fact by the DBE. We view this attempt to confuse our members and deliberately drive a wedge between collective leadership of various unions and their members," said Maluleke. The unions are of the view that the ANA will not be beneficial to the system and will not contribute toward the quality of education. From: http://citizen.co.za/780852/teachers-wont-be-administrating-ana-unions/ -- -- 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 received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
