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EELC Education Monitoring Brief – Issue 11 | April 2021

11 May 2021

OF THE UNCRPD To encourage citizen engagement with Parliament, the Putting People in People’s Parliament Project has released a series of videos that provide RESEARCH REPORT ON THE guidance on what to do if you are concerned about something in your IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SOUTH community, who to approach and the role of the law-making bodies. [...] The EELC encourages ongoing engagement with both departments in light of the imminent migration of responsibilities in respect of ECD and the role DSD and DBE are anticipated to play on the technical team constituted to advise on the way forward in respect of ECD-related amendments in the Children’s Amendment Bill. [...] In an op-ed published on 30 March 2021, Andile Cele writes in the Daily Maverick about some of the concerns regarding the pending function shift of ECD from the Department of Social Development (“DSD”) to the Department of Basic Education (“DBE”). [...] RESEARCH REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON SOUTH AFRICA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM On 16 April 2021, the Commonwealth Secretariat, in partnership with the Joint Education Trust (JET), published a report that presents a public account of an early research response to the impact of COVID-19 on the South African education system. [...] Some of the learnings in the beginning stages of the project include, that the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for school stakeholders to work collaboratively in support of education during challenging times; that varying degrees of learning takes place within the home depending on socio-economic, cultural and linguistic factors; and that daily mindfulness activities with learners is one of.
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