Several factors have led to the downcast curl of education in the country.

Why has education declined to similar depths?

When informed part players in education handed solid reasons for the downcast curl of education in our country, the knee- haul response of education officers was to charge the learned educationists of criticising the government too roughly.

They veered the blame down from themselves and in trying to do some collateral damage, refocused fritters at other stakeholders.

While everyone has the individual and collaborative responsibility to insure that norms are maintained and enhanced, it’s the core duty of the government, and in turn the colorful parochial departments of education, to oversee, maintain and hoist our norms of education.

After all, they decide on programs and give the lifeblood of education – backing. But one can not ignore the data that have contributed to this downfall. Then are a many( of the numerous).

The check of schoolteacher training sodalities
Between 1994 and 2000, the government took the decision to shut down schoolteacher training sodalities and combine them with other tertiary institutions.

The explanation behind the move was to overcome the educational inequalities of the history and to reduce the apparent surfeit of primary academy preceptors.

still, due to waste, upward mobility, the outpour of preceptors to other countries as well as a limited force of good preceptors, there’s now a dearth of preceptors in the country.

This deficit has impacted negatively on the culture of tutoring and literacy.
In numerous cases, unqualified and underqualified preceptors are being employed to educate – leading to declining norms, while the maturity of seminaries have had to increase class sizes in order to combat this problem.

recently- good preceptors also have to deal with challenges like maintaining discipline, class changes, increased workloads and tyrannous executive work.

They’ve to perform duties they aren’t trained to do, leading to stress and collapse. For all its good intentions, this decision has not worked out well and has beencounter-productive.
Overcrowded classrooms
A standard size classroom can accommodate at least 25 pupils.

Pupils learn stylish when the schoolteacher is suitable to give them with individual attention.

It stands to reason that the lower the schoolteacher- pupil rate, the lesser the academic achievements and the support the pupils can admit from their preceptors.

According to the Personnel Administrative Measures( PAM) document, the schoolteacher- pupil rate is 130 in primary seminaries.

still, in some seminaries, the schoolteacher- pupil rate goes up to 170. Not only is this mischievous to the pupil, it also places great stress and adds to the formerly heavy workload of the schoolteacher.
In special requirements seminaries, because of the nature and complexity of the specific disability, the enacted rate is indeed lower.

In the case of oppressively intellectually disabled pupils, the schoolteacher- pupil rate is 16. But veritably infrequently is this rate stuck to. In a crazy twist, an education functionary at one stage claimed that the mainstream norm of 130 be applied in special requirements seminaries.

3. Discipline
   One of the major reasons for the decline in education can be attributed to the lack of discipline of pupils. In fact, discipline has gone through the window. Education authorities and preceptors moment are scuffling with correctional problems like discourteousness, bullying, substance abuse and a general each-round lack of interest in studying and being at academy. Over the times, discipline problems have boosted. One of the factors contributing to this is that parents aren’t completely involved in the education of their children. Children are left to their own bias and the lack of maternal involvement manifests itself in academy.
4. Budget cutbacks
   The stock response to any request that requires backing is “ We don’t have the plutocrat ”. Education is allocated the largest slice of the public budget. It thus defies sense that the plutocrat set away for specific particulars can not be set up. A recent illustration is the slashing of the KwaZulu- Natal Department of Education’s( KZNDOE’s) learner transport programme budget by a huge R193 million.
   As a result, numerous pupils will simply not go to academy, thereby contributing to the high absenteeism and drop- out rates. It mendicants belief that while the government’s station is that all children of academy- going age must attend academy, it can not give the essential support to enable them to do so. The cutbacks in backing for seminaries has also affected the coffers demanded for effective tutoring and literacy. The provision of learner schoolteacher support accoutrements ( LTSM) is vital to insure that the class is meaningfully delivered. still, numerous seminaries are floundering without resource accoutrements because there’s simply no plutocrat to buy them. The burning question that needs answering is “ Why are our pupils being offered on the balcony of rapacity and corruption? ” These are just a many of the numerous issues that have to be addressed and remedied if we want our education system to rise up and take its due place among the top- performing countries in Africa and the world.