August 16 Elna Cavendish

A commentator who was planning to study further after school, has found this unnecessary, as life and her current job has taken her in a different direction. This suggests that what is studied does not necessarily become the field of application. Her daughter is currently being adequately educated in a private school. She reckons that there are issues within the education system as teachers seem to be really unhappy, though she is not quiet sure what the issues are.

Tertiary level lecturing; often the lecturer, an authority in their field, is not really competent at teaching. At tertiary level students ought to have already developed the skills to research and write at school. Often this is not the case.

The new CAPS system loads additional admin for the teacher. It aims at creating universal standards by being textbook based. The model does not allow for interpretation or modification to suit different contexts. Its focus is more on qualification/form at the cost of content. It seems to be an over-reaction to the previous OBE.

There is more opportunity for deeper levels of creativity in environments with less funding. Often at schools with great abundance of resources, art projects seem to be “kit” constructions of bought objects. Creativity, in these privileged situations, is thus displayed by creative expressions of shopping/consuming.