{"id":6697,"date":"2012-01-05T09:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2012-01-05T09:54:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T07:54:23","slug":"urgent-action-needed-to-improve-embarrassing-matric-pass-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/urgent-action-needed-to-improve-embarrassing-matric-pass-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent Action Needed to Improve Embarrassing Matric Pass Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inkatha Freedom Party is calling for urgent action from the KwaZulu Natal MEC for Education in order to improve the Provincial Pass rate, which dropped by 2,4% from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The MEC needs to launch immediate investigations into those schools that performed badly.\u00a0 Emergency remedy that will accommodate both teachers and learners is needed especially in our worst performing district which happens to be Obonjeni,&#8221; said Honourable Lindani Mncwango, Shadow MEC for Education.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP feels that it is high time that the MEC for Education started addressing the problems and irregularities facing schools in the province especially rural schools under his jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The failure by the Province&#8217;s matriculants was caused by shoddy planning by the department. If the department and the teachers fail to do their job properly, learners suffer the consequences.\u00a0 Learners need to be empowered, motivated and offered quality education,&#8221; said Mncwango.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP will be submitting questions to the MEC regarding the unacceptable performance by the province and the irregularities faced by Obonjeni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lindani Mncwango<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[wpramazon asin=&#8221;1242984771&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inkatha Freedom Party is calling for urgent action from the KwaZulu Natal MEC for Education in order to improve the Provincial Pass rate, which dropped by 2,4% from 2010. &#8220;The MEC needs to launch immediate investigations into those schools that performed badly.\u00a0 Emergency remedy that will accommodate both teachers and learners is needed especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[306,954,389],"class_list":{"0":"post-6697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-ifp","8":"tag-inkatha-freedom-party","9":"tag-matric","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6699,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}