School staff crisis ‘heading for court’
By Lee-Anne Butler - 25 July 2017
[caption id="attachment_213087" align="aligncenter" width="599"] Uitenhage High School principal Mark Williams, left, with education portfolio committee chairman Fundile Gade in a classroom at the school
Picture: Eugene Coetzee[/caption]
Huge backlog should be addressed according to need, not budget, warns Gade
The Eastern Cape Department of Education is putting itself at risk of court action if it does not urgently review its staff shortfalls at schools in the province.
Yesterday, provincial education portfolio committee chairman Fundile Gade warned education officials that the allocation of teaching and non-teaching staff at schools should be done according to the needs of the schools and not based on the department’s budget.
