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Сентябрь
2015

‘Clash looms if ANA test go ahead’

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There will be a "collision" between the Department of Basic Education and teacher unions should ANAs go ahead, Sadtu warned.

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There will be a “collision” between the Department of Basic Education and teacher unions should the annual national assessments (ANAs) go ahead, Sadtu warned on Wednesday.

At a joint media conference of Cosatu-affiliated unions in Cape Town Cosatu’s provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich called on pupils to resist participating in the assessments.

Ehrenreich said pupils should be asking for better resourced schools, smaller classes and better quality education.

This was what was needed, instead of writing the ANAs which the department spends about R200 million a year to roll out.

SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) provincial chairman Jonovan Rustin said its members were adamant that they would have no involvement in the assessments and that there would be a collision between paths, come December.

“Teachers have indicated that they would not participate in the ANAs, this includes invigilating and marking of scripts.

“Teachers will remain strong and unified and if the assessments go ahead in December, there will be a collision of paths,” Rustin said.

 

Department spokesman Elijah Mhlanga said there would only be a collision if the members who boycotted became violent or intimidated those who decided to participate in the assessments.

“Some of Sadtu’s members contacted (the department) and said they would go ahead with the ANAs,” Mhlanga said.

Earlier this month, the department announced that the assessments would be written in February next year.

But last Friday, it announced that the ANAs would take place from December 1 to 4.

The annual assessments, which test literacy and numeracy levels of pupils from Grades 1 to 6 and Grade 9, are diagnostic tests.

These are intended to measure pupil performance.

The are also meant to provide insight into which areas are in need of additional support.

At the end of last year, Grade 9 pupils nationally scored on average of less than 11 percent in maths.

Teacher unions – Sadtu, the National Professional Teachers’ Organisation of SA, the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie, the National Teachers Union and the Professional Educators Union have said that they are not happy with the ANAs in their current form.

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