09 November 2005
Recent Gauteng in-migrants are a relatively advantaged population compared with how they are often imagined. Many are literate and employed, have access to basic services, and live in relatively adequate housing, and in married households. Most of…
20 June 2005
EDUCATOR ATTRITION AND MORTALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA A Study into Gross Educator Attrition Rates and Trends, including Analysis of the Causes of these by Age and Gender, in the Public Schools System in South Africa 1997/8 ? 2003/04 conducted by the…
Key finding: The study revealed that 55% of educators intend to leave the education profession. Two-thirds of this group fall in the technology, natural sciences, economics and management fields. Some of the reasons for wanting to leave the education…
Key finding: Absenteeism from work is attributed to chronic conditions such TB, high-risk drinking, lung or breathing problems, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and anaemia. The burden of absenteeism on the education labour force was highest due to…
Key findings: There are major variations in the mean annual school fees, with the Free State charging the least (less than R 100 per child per year) and Gauteng charging the most (more than R 800). The average class size is lowest in the Northern…
Key finding: 10.6% of educators have been hospitalised in the previous 12 months. Another indication of educator’s health status is that at least 75% have reported a visit to a health practitioner in the six months before the study. The most…
Key finding: The overwhelming majority of educators (75%) did not drink alcohol in the past 12 months; 20% are classified as low-risk drinkers; and 5.3% are high-risk drinkers. Male educators (15%) are significantly more high-risk drinkers than…
Key finding: Overall, 12.7% of all educators are HIV positive. HIV prevalence is the highest in the 25?34 age group (21.4%), followed by the 35?44 age group (12.8%). Those educators 55 years and older had the lowest HIV prevalence (3.1%). There are…
Key finding: More than a fifth (22 %) of the HIV-positive educator population would need antiretroviral therapy if health care providers use the national criteria based on WHO?s conservative guidelines for the initiation of antiretroviral therapy…
Key findings: A review of all key Department of Education’s (DoE) workplace policies as well as two unions’ HIV/AIDS policies, concludes that the transformation of the education sector has been on the whole successful. The major criticism…
