The Talking PointUnderstanding the General Education Certificate
Let’s wrap-up the show by getting to understand the General Education Certificate. It’s punted as one of the flagship programme of the Department of Basic Education aimed at giving learners from Grade 9 the opportunity to advance themselves through TVET colleges. But then lots of questions are being raised about just how much weight they carry and whether it’s a good strategy to take seeing how shaky the state of our education is in the country. To explain more on this why the department is considering it, we are joined by….
Guest: James Donald - Executive Director, the DBE’s E3 Program
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