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The Mercury reports that teacher unions are claiming a major victory after the Department of Basic Education agreed to demands to write the “objectionable” Annual National Assessment (ANA) exams only every three years.
A “re-engineered” assessment system would replace the ANAs at schools in 2018. A SA Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) official commented: “It was our demand that the test be written every three years, so this is a victory for the unions.” Sadtu said it was happy with the compromise, the National Professional Teachers Organisations of SA (Naptosa) said although it was a victory, it foresaw new problems with the assessments, and the National Teachers Union (Natu) said no agreement had been reached with the department. Allen Thompson of Natu said they would be requesting a further meeting with the department.
- Read this report by Bernadette Wolhuter and Thami Magubane in full at The Mercury
- See too, ANA now kicked out of schools, at IOL News
- And also, ‘Sadtu's reasons for opposing systemic tests don't stand scrutiny’, at GroundUp
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