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RESEP early career researchers publish in highly ranked health journal

A paper composed by early career researchers at RESEP, Martin Mwale and Dr Martina Mchenga, and their co-author Dr Gowokani Chirwa, has recently been published in a highly ranked international journal.

September 22, 2021 By: RESEP Team PDF

Learner flows through schools: Using high quality administrative data to understand education system performance

The report analyses school flows, repetition, and dropout using a novel analysis of school-based assessments, and how well these predict future performance and learner flows. An important finding is that the high repetition and dropout rates in high schools imply an internal efficiency rate of only 49% (measured in terms of the years of enrolment in high school for every matric pass).

September 17, 2021 By: Servaas van der Berg, Chris van Wyk, Rebecca Selkirk, and Heleen Hofmeyr PDF

A teacher retirement wave is about to hit South Africa: what it means for class size

Teacher supply and demand is a complex matter. The ultimate aim is to have a teacher in front of every class, now and for the foreseeable future. This also implies an ideal class size. The quality of teachers is obviously important too – and a topic for another occasion.

September 13, 2021 By: Martin Gustafsson PDF

Infographic: Only one matric pass produced for every ten years of high school in SA

September 10, 2021 By: RESEP Team PDF

Gustafsson reviews policies and research on carbon tax and emissions reductions in SA while on fellowship

As Visiting Fellow with the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Rhodes University, Martin Gustafsson recently produced a policy and literature review titled ‘Carbon taxes and the attainment of emissions reductions targets in South Africa: A critical stocktaking of recent analyses and policies’.

September 8, 2021 By: RESEP Team PDF

New paper published on COVID-19 learning losses in South Africa

A new paper on COVID-19 learning losses in South Africa has been published in the International Journal of Educational Development.

August 18, 2021 By: RESEP Team PDF

A ‘Free’ Labour Force: The Labour Mobility of Emancipated Slaves at the Cape Colony, 1833-1891

STIAS, Stellenbosch 30 June 2020

August 11, 2021 By: Lisa Martin PDF

Education and skills for the economy and links to labour markets in South Africa – Presentation made by RESEP to the National Planning Commission

STIAS, Stellenbosch 23 June 2020

August 11, 2021 By: Martin Gustafsson PDF

Perseverance, Passion and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools

STIAS, Stellenbosch 7 April 2020

August 11, 2021 By: Heleen Hofmeyr PDF

Overview of Funda Wande and Bala Wande RCTs in EC and LP and collaborations with RESEP

STIAS, Stellenbosch 24 March 2020

August 11, 2021 By: Nic Spaull PDF

The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in mathematics in South Africa and its moderating factors

STIAS, Stellenbosch 10 March 2020

August 11, 2021 By: Debra Shepherd PDF

Stellenbosch Working Papers

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RESEP early career researchers publish in highly ranked health journal

Learner flows through schools: Using high quality administrative data to understand education system performance

A teacher retirement wave is about to hit South Africa: what it means for class size

Infographic: Only one matric pass produced for every ten years of high school in SA

Gustafsson reviews policies and research on carbon tax and emissions reductions in SA while on fellowship

New paper published on COVID-19 learning losses in South Africa

A ‘Free’ Labour Force: The Labour Mobility of Emancipated Slaves at the Cape Colony, 1833-1891

Education and skills for the economy and links to labour markets in South Africa – Presentation made by RESEP to the National Planning Commission

Highlights from Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa

Giving and racial outgroup-preferences

Coerced indigenous labour and effort in pastoral agriculture: Lessons learnt from the nineteenth century Cape frontier

A discussion of key issues in South Africa’s basic education sector during the COVID-19 pandemic

Climate, Weather and Development: Research in Sub-Saharan Africa

Out of control: Mending the broken feedback loops of water and electricity expenses at schools

Labor Markets and Institutions in Postemancipation South Africa

A century later: Lessons from the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918

Modelling COVID-19’s spread, severity and ICU capacity in South Africa

Perseverance, Passion and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools

Overview of Funda Wande and Bala Wande RCTs in EC and LP and collaborations with RESEP

The Big-Fish-Little-Pond Effect in mathematics in South Africa and its moderating factors

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