I have just had the most amazing visit to South Africa, seeing over 10 schools, including St Mark’s College in Limpop Province, of which I am proud to be Patron. The good work done by the school in providing opportunities for young people from the surrounding villages is inspiring.
I also saw a tremendous project around the sad townships of Nelspruit. Over 200 schools are being helped in whole-school development and teacher improvement. It was wonderful. The people who run these projects deserve every support.
Your report sounds as if South Africa is leaping ahead both in early school training for lifelong competitive career-ladder climbing, and in “whole-of-life” education;
in which latter it would be of intense interest to know how far they are succeeding both in training teachers as “instructors” for the future Workplace
and in educating them as both exemplarily-emulable leaders for sustainworthy-lifestyling in the Lifeplace
and as advancing-knowledge feeders to the adult population in general (?)
Isn’t it now true, for instance, that the rational-workplace-mind is quite easily trained; whereas the irrational-yet-stabilising-and-creation-enhancing imagination needs constant daily nurturing and education from real-life-experienced educators
(rather than from Rote-Trainers) ?
What I am getting at is whether they are training for the Workplace
AND
educating for the long-term Lifeplace;
[because if they are, they might be the first in the world to be doing so !]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelspruit
Does the noble baroness mean Mbombela?!
All this lingusitic imperialism!
They don’t seem to have a wikipedia page at St Marks’ even though the database of former pupils goes back to 1983. Perhaps they are just not enthusiasts in that part of the world, or I am not looking in a good language for searching, which, surprising as it may seem, makes a huge difference to geographical searches, even between Spanish and English, let alone an African one, based on the latin script as they may be.
Can “St Mark’s college” be transposed in to
Bantu(?).
South Africa is in a mess. And will continue to be with the crazed indvidual they have running that show.
And exactly what is it you want the UK to be involved in their? More charity and aid? For what?
More charity and aid? For what?
http://worldfactsandfigures.com/countries/south_africa.php
@GHH:
This is 2013 not 1806.
And what is your thrust now? We, the people of this country, full of African, Indian and many other immigrants, should be paying their taxes for the British Imperialist past?
There are enough people starving here. Read up on it.
And please tell me what your lean has to do with South Africa today? Zuma is the Zulu chief and he is running his country the way he likes it to be. We should keep our nose out of it. They don’t want our ideas only our money.
Get real!