YCLSA.png YCLSA Press Statement, 6 January 2016 2015 National Senior Certificate Results The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] cautiously welcomes the 2015 National Senior Certificate results as announced by the Department of Basic Education yesterday. The YCLSA congratulates the class of 2015, their families, teachers, principals and the Department of Basic Education on the matric results achieved. We would also like to congratulate the South African Democratic Teachers Unions [SADTU] for the sterling and demanding job they perform in teaching our children. The 5.1% drop from 75.8% to 70.7% should not be taken lightly and the contributing factors to this decline must be investigated and fixed as a matter of urgency. The challenges that engulf the education sector in South Africa must be confronted head on as they have a huge potential to derail our goals as a country. The 5.1% decline should be taken as a warning call to all stakeholders to work in harder in ensuring that the class of 2016 increases the pass rate. This will require teacher union, parents, SGB's and all relevant stakeholders to monitor and play an active role in the learning of the class of 2016. As the YCLSA we are very worried that rural provinces continue not to do well. The Eastern Cape is in the 50% range, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal are in the 60% range while Mpumalanga is in the 70% range. We call on the Minister to provide all the necessary and required resources to deal with this dire situation. The YCLSA as part of the 'New Deal' for the youth calls for the escalation of the opening of training and second chance opportunities for young people that have not completed secondary education. Those that have not passed cannot be ignored and measures must be put in place to ensure that they are given a second chance to pass their senior certificate. As part of our Joe Slovo Right to Learn campaign in 2015 we adopted 36 schools that we closely worked with. As the YCLSA we are more than elated to announce that of those 36 schools that we had adopted they showed improvement. This year we will redouble our efforts and ensure that we adopt more schools. We commit ourselves to work even harder in working hand in glove with schools that performed poorly in 2015. As part of our Joe Slovo Right to Learn Campaign in 2016 the YCLSA commits itself to carry out the following tasks: . To ensure that all teachers are in class teaching . Learners are in class learning . To work adopt and support problematic schools especially that did not do well in 2015 . To intensify our campaign of closing down shebeens that are in close proximity to schools . To work hand in glove with the South African Police Service in ridding our schools of drugs . To ensure that books are delivered on time The green paper on higher education has the full support of the YCLSA. The paper calls for a shift in attention from universities to Further Education and Training (FET) colleges and for them to become the institutions of choice for school-leavers. These will capacitate work places directly with the skills that are needed as well as offering increased choices to school leavers. We would like to encourage the class of 2015 to explore all the options open to them for 2016 and beyond. Various options such as NSFAS loans, SETA's, bursaries and FET colleges exist to give opportunities to students. Equal opportunity for a high quality education for all students is one of the key factors behind the Cuban educational success. South Africa must strive towards achieving this goal. Issued by YCLSA Head Office For more information contact: Khaya Xaba YCLSA National Spokesperson Cell: 074 520 4204 -- -- 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.
