Representatives from the home education community were not invited to attend the Basic Education Sector Lekgotla in January 2019. This makes one wonder about government’s commitment to ensuring access to quality education for all. Home education is a viable alternative to school attendance. For some parents, home education is a stop-gap solution while they wait for their child to be placed in a school, but for many others it is a...

In 2017 the education sector reached a crossroad that will determine the future of education for the next decades. At the start of the school year tens of thousands of learners in Gauteng and Western Cape could not be placed in public schools. In the last quarter the state proposed new legislation to reduce the powers of School Governing Bodies (SGB’s) of public schools and to bring mainly unregulated homeschooling under...