{"id":9808,"date":"2013-08-29T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9808"},"modified":"2013-08-29T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:24:23","slug":"education-department-ditches-competence-test-for-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9808","title":{"rendered":"Education Department ditches competence test for markers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9809\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angie2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9809\" alt=\"Angie cancels competency tests\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angie2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angie2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angie2-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie ditches competence tests for matric markers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"intro\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not all those marking this year&#8217;s matric exam papers will have sat a test to demonstrate their competence, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Not all the provincial education departments will implement the competency test for markers in 2013, as initially planned,&#8221; she said in a written reply to a parliamentary question, tabled on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reason was she had not yet approved a policy on administration of such a test, due to the need for further consultation with one of the teacher unions that had opposed the writing of the competency test.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her reply does not name the union, but later refers to it as the country&#8217;s &#8220;major&#8221; teacher union. The largest teacher union in South Africa, with 240\u00a0000 members, is the South African Democratic Teachers&#8217; Union (Sadtu).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Motshekga said she would meet the union to address their concerns and finalise the policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;However, given that most of the [provincial education departments] are at an advanced stage of appointing their markers for the 2013 National Senior Certificate examination, the official implementation of the competency test will be scheduled for 2014,&#8221; she said. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all those marking this year&#8217;s matric exam papers will have sat a test to demonstrate their competence, according to Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga. &#8220;Not all the provincial education departments will implement the competency test for markers in 2013, as initially planned,&#8221; she said in a written reply to a parliamentary question, tabled on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Education Department ditches competence test for markers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5679,5676,5677,2718,5678],"class_list":["post-9808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-2013-national-senior-certificate-examination","tag-basic-education-minister-angie-motshekga","tag-competency-test-for-markers-in-2013","tag-sadtu","tag-teachers-union"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/angie2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9810,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9808\/revisions\/9810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}