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    Beyond the numbers 2019
    (National Education Collaboration Trust, South Africa, 2019)
    This report assesses South Africa’s current education data and tool landscape as well as some of the major local and global contextual changes currently underway and how South Africa should respond to them. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, detailed assessment of all aspects of information and communications technology (ICT) in education, but rather to provide a snapshot of the system today and an overview of the current trends, challenges and opportunities. The report offers up a blueprint for where further investment and analysis efforts are required to ensure the system can navigate the challenges of a changing technology landscape and leverage the opportunities on offer as a springboard to continue the progress that has been made in recent years.
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    Innovation in Education : a Technical Report
    (MIET Africa, 2016-03) Van der Els, Lynn
    In terms of the National Development Plan 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Declaration, South Africa has made a commitment to accelerate development over the next fifteen years. Meeting this challenge depends fundamentally on the ability of our education system to equip today’s children for high levels of achievement and active participation in a global 21st century society and economy. Yet that system is inadequate in several ways, be it in terms of its teachers, teaching practices, curricula, management and the skills it imparts to graduating youth. The growing consensus is that the state of the system presents an urgent case – a “burning platform” – for doing things differently. And while there are innovations taking place in South African education, they are scattered in isolated pockets that currently benefit the few rather than the many. What is called for is a means of supporting and coordinating innovation for 21st century learning so that it has the potential to impact, at scale, the basic education system in South Africa.