{"id":965102,"date":"2024-07-10T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965102"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T09:53:48","slug":"nw-mec-says-some-grade-r-diploma-holders-lack-qualification-to-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/nw-mec-says-some-grade-r-diploma-holders-lack-qualification-to-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"NW MEC says some Grade R diploma holders lack qualification to teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North West MEC for Education Viola Motsumi says the Department is not necessarily doing away with the Grade R diploma.<\/p>\n<p>She says some Grade R diploma holders do not meet the requirements for being qualified Grade R teachers.<\/p>\n<p>This, following an outcry from Grade R diploma holders that they are not being employed even though they are qualified.<\/p>\n<p>MEC Motsumi says there is a difference between a Grade R teacher and a Grade R practitioner. Motsumi encourages Grade R diploma holders to study further to meet the requirements needed to qualify them as Grade R teachers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We are not phasing out the Grade R diploma however, the Grade R diploma alone does not fully qualify teachers as it does not meet the necessary requirements.\u00a0Additional qualifications are needed on top of the Grade R diploma. We have consulted with various unions who will communicate this to their members. The reality is that we must resolve this issue and ensure that Grade R teachers are fully qualified.<\/p>\n<p>As the Department of Education we are committed to assisting them in this process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grade R diploma&#8230; does not fully qualify teachers, it does not meet all the requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":965103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[1019,1020],"class_list":["post-965102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-department-of-basic-education","tag-grade-r-diploma-vs-grade-r-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965102","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}