International Tests: What are they and why should South Africa Participate?
International Tests: What are they and why should South Africa ...
Mother-tongue Instruction or Straight-for-English? The Primary Education Policy Dilemma
Language-in-education policy has a powerful influence on social and economic relations, with complex dimensions in multilingual and unequal societies such as South Africa.
Perseverance, Passion, and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools
This paper examines whether school characteristics moderate the association between grit and reading achievement in a sample of Grade 6 learners in high-poverty contexts.
New RESEP Working Paper Assesses SA’s approach to COVID-19 Compared with the Rest of the World
Using a dataset known as the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT), RESEP's Martin Gustafsson assesses the South African response to COVID-19 relative to that of 139 other nations.
How does South Africa’s Covid-19 Response Compare Globally? A Preliminary Analysis using the new OxCGRT Dataset
How does South Africa’s Covid-19 response compare globally? A preliminary ...
Education in a Time of School Closures
President Ramaphosa announced on 15 March that schools would close within days for just over three weeks, as opposed to the originally planned one week of school holidays. This is in line with steps taken across the world to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus. This is a sudden change of plan, and closures may be extended. What should South Africans look out for? What can they do to limit the adverse effects of this disruption on education?
With Schools Shut, Kids Go Hungry (BD Article)
The coronavirus pandemic working its way through South African society will have many knock-on effects, one of them will be hunger and malnutrition as 9-million children no longer receive free school meals while their schools are shut.
COVID-19 in South Africa: Navigating Social Solidarity in a Time of Social Distancing
RESEP's Ronelle Burger today published an article in the Daily Maverick calling for South African's to stand together and adhere to the President's recent announcements on precautionary measures to stem the spread of the Coronavirus.
RESEP hosts researchers from the UK, India, and Nepal at a two-day workshop on education research
On the 20th and 21st of February 2020, RESEP convened a workshop on education research with participation from academics from the University of Bristol (UK), the University of Bath (UK), the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), and Tribhuvan University (Nepal), as well as key policymakers and researchers from the DBE.
RESEP researcher Cobus Burger builds winning model for Uber Movement SANRAL Cape Town Challenge
Competing against some 738 data scientists from around the globe, RESEP’s Cobus Burger recently won the Uber Movement SANRAL Cape Town Challenge. Burger's model was most accurately able to predict when and where road accidents were going to happen on Cape Town’s busy roads.
