More language teachers are needed in the Free State Province, according to the Provincial MEC of Education, Tate Makgoe.
Speaking at the handing over of books to rural schools in the province, Makgoe said poor performance at primary schools, the shortage of language teachers, and inadequate libraries at schools in the rural areas are issues that are soon going to be addressed.
He said there remains a need to improve the quality of education at lower grades, more particularly in impoverished communities.
“We want to focus primarily on primary education. We are already doing well as a province at high school level, but we realise our primary schools are not doing so well, and we’re therefore going to focus on primary schools”.
Makgoe says the department is to build libraries at primary schools that do not have libraries. It is also going to improve Information Communication Technology (ICT) at these schools.
“We are going to make sure that we become number one in the country when it comes to mathematics. We are currently the second highest performing province when it comes to this subject, we need to improve even more,” he added.
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