Eyewitness News 3.png SADTU Questions Publisher's Influence on WC Education Policy SADTU believes Pearson potentially has too much influence because it designs the province's systemic tests Natalie Malgas, Eye Witness News, Cape Town, 12 September 2016 The South African Democratic Teachers' Union (SADTU) has questioned the influence of a private publisher on education policy in the Western Cape. The teachers' union believes the London-based Pearson potentially has too much influence because it designs the province's systemic tests. The union wants these tests discontinued. The union does not want Pearson drafting independent exams for Western Cape schools. DA loves Pearson R36m SADTU also wants the department to cancel its R36 million contract with the company amid reports of Pearson's attempts to privatise education. Western Cape Education's Paddy Attwell maintains the company does not influence its policies. "Their involvement in the tests that has absolutely no bearing on the results of the tests. The tests have proved to be extremely valuable and form an important part of our interventions to improve maths and language results in the province." Pearson designs independent learner competency tests for Grades 3, 6 and 9. SADTU has vowed to boycott the tests set down for October. From: http://ewn.co.za/2016/09/12/Sadtu-questions-Pearson-publishers-influence-on- WC-exams-drafting __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14112 (20160913) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005701d20d88%24b7e92930%2427bb7b90%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
