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CIDA was formed in 2000 to provide disadvantaged students with an almost cost-free, university education. [2] The foundation describes itself as an organisation that facilitates projects that provide large-scale, low-cost, education for the disadvantaged. [1] The university was founded in part by funding from the Educating Africa foundation. [3]
The Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa (PRAESA) [1] is a multilingual, early literacy research and development organisation, affiliated with the University of Cape Town. PRAESA's work in literacy approaches, curricula, training, materials development and research has meaning making, stories and imagination as its ...
By mid-2007, the South African public education system had 12,3 million learners, 387.000 educators and about 26.592 schools, including 400 special-needs schools and 1.098 registered private schools. Of all schools, 6.000 were secondary schools (grades eight to 12) and the rest were primary schools (grades one to seven).
Youth empowerment examines six interdependent dimensions: psychological, community, organizational, economic, social and cultural. [1] [8] Psychological empowerment enhances individual's consciousness, belief in self-efficacy, awareness and knowledge of problems and solutions and of how individuals can address problems that harm their quality of life. [1]
SAEP's vision is "A generation of motivated South African youth, equipped with education and life skills in order to maximise their potential, and contribute to society. SAEP's mission is "To prepare and motivate children and youth from under-resourced communities to thrive by providing education, life skills and psycho-social support" through ...
The “White Paper 3: A Programme for the Transformation of higher education” was a report documenting South Africa's transition from Apartheid and minority rule to a democracy. The White Paper notes higher education as playing a “critical role in the social, cultural and economic development of modern societies”. [5]
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The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...