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School's Report 2012 National Senior Certificate (NSC) Examination

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SCHOOL’S REPORT <strong>2012</strong> NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE (<strong>NSC</strong>) EXAMINATION<br />

The following table provides information on the number of public schools (excluding ELSEN schools)<br />

per quintile per district.<br />

TABLE D: QUINTILES PER DISTRICT IN PUBLIC CHOOLS <strong>2012</strong><br />

(excluding ELSEN schools)<br />

DISTRICT Quintile 1 Quintile 2 Quintile 3 Quintile 4 Quintile 5 TOTAL<br />

AMAJUBA 48 62 67 51 14 242<br />

ILEMBE 181 137 79 23 8 428<br />

PINETOWN 6 50 178 150 115 499<br />

SISONKE 163 227 38 15 2 445<br />

UGU 172 200 77 21 22 492<br />

UMGUNGUNDLOVU 73 139 179 50 57 498<br />

UMKHANYAKUDE 248 236 44 9 537<br />

UMLAZI 3 15 94 166 185 463<br />

UMZINYATHI 329 101 43 19 5 497<br />

UTHUKELA 134 123 152 25 12 446<br />

UTHUNGULU 232 234 127 35 33 661<br />

ZULULAND 365 239 102 29 4 739<br />

PROVINCE 1 954 1 763 1 180 593 457 5 947<br />

2.6 Educator Landscape<br />

KwaZulu-Natal has 6000 schools spread over a large geographic area and mostly rural, with a<br />

learner population of 2,8 million. According to KZNDoE Persal, there are over 88 287 educator<br />

workforce. Of these, 14 809 are unqualified and underqualified. There is a reported acute shortage of<br />

teachers of Mathematics, Science and Technology. These subjects are taught by un/under qualified<br />

teachers. Of the 14 809, 7 259 have degrees or diplomas, 7 550 of these only have matriculation, the<br />

bulk of them teach in rural schools. Attrition rate stands at approximately 6% (4 500) due to mortality,<br />

retirement, ill-health, misconduct and resignations. Approximately 2 420 substitute educators are<br />

appointed in each financial year.<br />

Newly qualified teachers (NQT) for the KwaZulu-Natal public school system are largely produced<br />

from the public and private higher education institutions that have campuses within KwaZulu-Natal.<br />

The output from these institutions is in the region of 1800 graduates annually. Teacher up-grading<br />

and re-skilling programmes are still offered by some Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to address<br />

the province’s un-qualified and under-qualified teachers.<br />

There is a mismatch between supply and demand of educators. A resultant problem arising out<br />

of this mismatch is that unqualified and under-qualified teachers are continually being employed<br />

to address the schools’ immediate needs. Individuals with no qualifications are being employed,<br />

largely in rural context due to the non-availability of qualified personnel.<br />

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