Research Theme:
Research Area: Education & Employment
Suggested Readings:
- Hundreds of South African schools don’t offer Mathematics
- South Africa’s Department of Basic Education (DBE) has revealed that 464 public schools do not offer Mathematics to their learners.
- South Africa's university dropout crisis
- Although limited university allocations make headlines at the start of the year, South Africa's dropout crisis is occurring as first-year students move into the second semester of 2024.
- Convert some unproductive public universities to colleges - Roodt
- Efficient Group Economist Dawie Roodt proposes that some public universities be closed and converted into colleges because they're not producing the right skills compared to the private ones that provide high-quality education.
- Unemployment in South Africa: A Youth Perspective
- South Africa, like many countries globally, grapples with the challenge of youth unemployment. This is supported by statistics indicating a 45,5% unemployment rate among young individuals (aged 15-34 years), in contrast to the national average of 32,9% in the first quarter of 2024.
Pre-released Motion #1:
Social media platforms should require everyone to use their real names while online
Suggested Readings:
- Gov clarifies identity checks for social media as law is passed
- World-first regime to start in Australia.
- Scrubbing the net: The content moderators - The Listening Post
- Many social media users assume that content moderation is automated, that when an inappropriate image or video is uploaded to the net a computer removes it – whereas, in reality, there are reportedly more than 150,000 content moderators working today.
