{"id":964990,"date":"2024-07-09T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964990"},"modified":"2024-07-09T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:05:03","slug":"gauteng-education-to-launch-online-application-process-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/gauteng-education-to-launch-online-application-process-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng Education to launch online application process on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gauteng Department of Education has announced that the online application process for the 2025 academic year will go live on Thursday, the 11th of July until Monday, the 12th of August.<\/p>\n<p>The online applications are only open to grade 1 and grade 8 applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media briefing at Noordwyk Secondary School in Midrand, Gauteng Education MEC Matome Chiloane says despite a few technical issues the system has managed to reduce long queues from parents seeking placements for learners.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and guardians of grade 1 and 8 applicants have been urged to provide all the required information when applying.<\/p>\n<p>Parents can expect to start receiving offer letters from the 16th of September.\u00a0But failure to accept the offer within a period of seven days may compromise the learner\u2019s prospects of finding a suitable school.<\/p>\n<p>Parents are also required to provide one reliable contact number for updates on the status of their applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, we used to have long queues at schools. By now parents would have gone to schools weeks prior, sleeping at the schools. And with this programme, we eliminated all of that. The system was launched in 2015, it began slowly with some teething challenges. But I\u2019m confident to say that the system is smooth,\u201d Chiloane explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><strong>2025 online admissions for Grade 1 and 8 in Gauteng begin 11 July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xu1HwanSOgc?si=_UQNDC2A2AmDXlY1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Walk-in centres<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an effort to bridge the digital divide, 80 decentralised walk-in centres will be opened across the province.<\/p>\n<p>The online application process was launched in 2015 and has been the source of unhappiness among some parents in the past.\u00a0But the provincial education department says it has worked hard to improve the system.<\/p>\n<p>Gauteng Department of Education HoD, Rufus Mmutlana says, \u201cWe are launching this particular admission process with pride given the fact that we have improved the system. This is the ninth year that the system is in place and every year we ensure that we are on a continuous process of improving the system, increasing its capacity and ensuring that it doesn&#8217;t crash. And I can confirm that this particular system for 2024 in preparing for 2025 can take multiple entries without fail and our parents will have access to it all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the department has set a target of building more than 15 schools per year to address overcrowding in schools. It has also noted the Public Protector&#8217;s report on the construction of the Mayibuye school. The report found the project cost overruns among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng education&#8217;s online application process for the 2025 academic year will go live on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[977,978],"class_list":["post-964990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-gauteng-department-of-education","tag-online-application-process-for-the-2025-academic-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}