- SA’s Child Gauge 2012 – Suffer the Little Children (Daily Maverick article) – the lived experience of too many South African children is simply unacceptable. But life goes on.
- Servaas van der Berg (my supervisor) takes on Adcorp “Adcorp’s employment and unemployment figures are not taken seriously by researchers – yet they can do much harm” and see Loane Sharp’s reply here (and Wittenberg and Kerr repeat the most important reasons why we shouldn’t take Adcorp’s figures seriously – see here)
- Trevor Manuel and Lindiwe Sisulu crack down (at least on paper) on incompetent and corrupt bureaucrats.
- When Churches act like businesses they shouldn’t be surprised when they get consumers (see here).
- The ABSOLUTELY shocking state of infrastructure in Limpopo schools – pictures tell a thousand words
- Interesting newsletter from “Governing Body Foundation” discussing ANA results and some advice for schools (citing our interview with M&G)
- Bill Easterly brilliant as usual – discussing “The Ideology of Development” from which I draw the quote of the day:
- “The ideology of Development is not only about having experts design your free market for you; it is about having the experts design a comprehensive, technical plan to solve all the problems of the poor. These experts see poverty as a purely technological problem, to be solved by engineering and the natural sciences, ignoring messy social sciences such as economics, politics, and sociology”
Like this:
Like Loading...
Here are the slides for my recent SALDRU presentation titled “An overview of South African schooling: Understanding inequality and underperformance” (15 Feb 2013) – it has some of my more recent research…
Like this:
Like Loading...
Nic Spaull 