Tlholohelo Mosala
FORMER Chairperson of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) Sizwe Nxasana said South Africa should consider establishing teacher university colleges in order to provide better training for educators.Â
Nxasana was delivering a keynote address at the Matthew Goniwe School of Leadership and Governance (MGSLG) Colloquium on the theme: “transformative leadership for social change- to empower the next generation.”
He said universities are only focusing on research, and because most professors and educators have never been to a school, there exists a gap between theory and practice.
“Let’s establish teacher university colleges, not the old colleges of the apartheid regime but the ones that are going to focus on pedagogical content, youth developments in education, and teaching practices, producing and developing teachers to help the country. If we continue on the current trajectory, we are going to fail our children, he said, calling for a rethink and for the sector to learn from the unintended consequences as a results of the separation between basic and higher education departments.
He said such colleges will go a long way in addressing the crisis of mathematics in the South African education system.
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